Category:Commons Economics: Difference between revisions

Commons Economics is, simply, economics that involves what we understand as Commons in one way or another. This has been a much neglected aspect of economics as taught in traditional business schools, which are often based on the assumptions of a capitalist economic system, and tends to ignore Commons, perhaps because they cannot be bought or sold. To start to make up for this, there are many pages on this wiki related to Commons Economics: Michel Bauwens, after writing most of the pages, surveyed them and has compiled an Introduction to the P2P Foundation Wiki Material about Commons Economics.

Much of this material was originally brought together for a conference in Berlin in 2013, called ECC2013, the Economics of the Commons Conference.

Key Concepts of This Category

One key distinction is between digital commons and material commons. Much has been written about digital commons and the related economics.

A related distinction is between Rival vs Non Rival Goods (alternatively, "rivalrous"). Digital, or intellectual, goods are by nature non-rival, and whether they are 'excludable' depends on Intellectual Property law. This motivates much related discussion about Creative Commons licences; about Copyleft, Copyfarleft and Copyfair.

Useful learning resources

Introductory

• Wikipedia has a useful page on digital commons economics - Wikipedia: Digital commons (economics).
• Also explained on Wikipedia: Rivalry (economics).

Deeper Study

• Introduction to the P2P Foundation Wiki Material about Commons Economics

Related Categories

• This category is in the intersection of Category: Commons and Category: Economics, which are both super-categories.
• Category: ECC2013 Participants
• Category: IP stands for Intellectual Property