P2P Public Intellectuals

Context

A list of people oriented towards thinking about a sharing, commons, p2p oriented society.

For a cooperative publishing project with Shareable.

We aim to interview two people per month, with possible publication of interview book.

Introduction

Note from initial compiler Michel Bauwens:

Please note, a lot of people whom I find very interesting are not in here, because I or they do not necessarily see their work as part of this particular emergence and they belong to different paths. Also active activists who do not necessarily participate in the intellectual elaboration of p2p ideas are not included in this list. This list should in no way be seen as a list of approval or a select club to whom you do not belong. It is merely meant as a guide to find people with interesting ideas.

Thanks for suggesting names, and rationales for adding them.

Directory

• part of a general dialogue on the construction of a p2p world

• • associated in some fashion with our work at the P2P Foundation

Public Intellectuals

1. Amelia Andersdotter, Pirate Party, Sweden
2. Adam Arvidsson **, on the ethical economy, http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22Adam+Arvidsson%22&fulltext=Search
3. Michel Bauwens **, P2P Theory, founder of P2P Foundation; Bibliography of Michel Bauwens
4. Yochai Benkler *, legal scholar, author of the classic study of Peer Production, i.e. the Wealth of Networks
5. David Bollier **, author of Viral Spiral, foremost commons scholar, now working on emerging Commons Law framework
6. James Boyle, against IP enclosures
7. Rachel Botsman *, on sharing infrastructures and access via product-service systems

• Arthur Brock, Open Money, USA

1. Marvin Brown ** , Civilizing the Economy, on civic economics, http://www.shareable.net/blog/enriching-the-commons-marvin-browns-economics-of-provision
2. Axel Bruns, theorizing Produsage
3. Chris Carlsson *, Nowtopia, on local productive economic associations
4. Kevin Carson **, mutualism, relocalized production
5. Manuel Castells, networked society
6. David de Ugarte **, on Phyles as a new global organisational form, http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22David+de+Ugarte%22&fulltext=Search
7. Charles Eisenstein *, author of The Ascent of Humanity and Sacred Economics
8. Silvia Federici: [1], role of women in the commons
9. Jorge Ferrer **, participatory spirituality
10. Alex Foti, precarious workers movement, Italy
11. Mayo Fuster-Morell, European social movements, modalities of open source and platform governance
12. Alexander Galloway, Protocollary Power in networks
13. Lisa Gansky *, on the Mesh Economy
14. Neal Gorenflo **, editor of Shareable magazine, on sharing as a social practice
15. Thomas Greco **, Open Money and Credit Commons
16. Joss Hands *, digitally-empowered political activism
17. Paul Hartzog **, on complexity, panarchy, and global governance
18. Silke Helfrich **, commons researcher and advocate
19. John Heron **, participatory spirituality, cooperative inquiry
20. Pekka Himanen, the hacker ethic
21. Brian Holmes
22. Wolfgang Hoechsele **, economics of abundance
23. Pat Kane **, author the Play Ethic
24. Athina Karatzogianni **, cyberconflicts
25. Dmytri Kleiner **, anti-capitalist peer production through Venture Communism
26. Lawrence Lessig, IP law, creator of Creative Commons
27. Simona Levi **, founder and leader of the Free Culture Forum
28. Bernard Lietaer, monetary reform and transformation
29. Ezio Manzini **, local mutual aid oriented inititiatives by civil society groups
30. Alessandro Ludovico, Neural.it, p2p art and culture, Italy
31. Massimo Menichelli, on Open Design
32. Glyn Moody, active free software advocate and commentator
33. Phoebe Moore **, global labour trends
34. George Pór **, theorizing Collective Intelligence
35. Mathieu O'Neill **, governance of open source communities
36. Apichai Puntasen, Thailand, Buddhist Economics
37. James Quilligan **, theorizing the Global Commons
38. John Robb *, open source insurgencies and resilient communities, http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22John+Robb%22&fulltext=Search
39. Andy Robinson, social movement thinker, UK
40. David Ronfeldt**
41. Douglas Rushkoff **, author, development of democratic cyber culture
42. Sam Rose **, peer production and local communities, open p2p infrastructures
43. Nikos Salingaros **, on P2P Urbanism
44. Juliet Schor *, economics of abundance
45. Trebor Scholz **, distributed creativity
46. Orsan Senalp**, p2p and labor
47. Clay Shirky *, the Cognitive Surplus making possible bottom-up Peer Production
48. Felix Stalder, theorizing free culture and open movements
49. Richard Stallman, founder of free software
50. Don Tapskott, author of Wikinomics
51. Tere Vaden **, the Political Economy of Digital Literacy
52. Jeff Vail *, a theory of distributed power http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22Jeff+Vail%22&fulltext=Search
53. Roberto Verzola **, on the economics of abundance and scarcity, http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22Roberto+Verzola%22&fulltext=Search
54. Eric von Hippel *, user-led innovation in industrial production
55. Hilary Wainwright **, democratic and participatory public services, and the link between the commons and labour, http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?s=%22Hilary+Wainwright%22
56. Jay Walljasper **, All That We Share, on the emergence of local commons initiatives
57. Mackenzie Wark *, author of the Hacker's Manifesto, a class analysis of the Hacking Class
58. Steve Webber, author of the Success of Open Source

See also "visionary developers" of p2p infrastructure:

• Jaromil, hacker
• Tav, from the Espians

Commons-Oriented Economists

A list originally compiled by David Bollier:

1. Peter Barnes, Pt. Reyes Station, California (former entrepreneur; commons; Sky Trust) *
2. Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School (digital commons; not an economist, but he might as well be)
3. Sam Bowles, Santa Fe Institute (economics as seen through complexity theory & evolutionary sciences)
4. James Boyce, UMass Amherst (ecological economics)
5. Herman Daly, steady-state economics
6. Gerald Epstein, UMass Amherst (cooperatives)
7. Josh Farley, U. of Vermont (ecological economics, community development)
8. Nancy Folbre, UMass Amherst (feminist economics/caring economy)
9. Katherine Gibson, Australia (community economics; former writing partner with the late Julie Graham, a.k.a., J.-K. Gibson-Graham)
10. Wolfgang Hoeschele, Truman State University, Missouri (Solidarity Economy, commons)
11. David Korten, author
12. Richard Norgaard, UC Berkeley
13. Elinor Ostrom, Arizona State & Indiana U. (commons; not an economist, but she might as well be)
14. Wolfgang Sachs, Wuppertal Institute, Germany

See also:

1. Robert Costanza, U. of Oregon (a leading ecological economist; not sure of commons-orientation)

Organisations:

1. Association for Georgist Studies (the Henry George crowd)
2. E.F. Schumacher Foundation: hosts annual lecture series that often includes iconoclastic economist-types
3. New Economics Institute: Schumacher spinoff with ties to New Economics Foundation in UK, which aspires

to develop alternative economic approaches.