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
8. Arthur Brock, Open Money, USA
9. Marvin Brown ** , Civilizing the Economy, on civic economics, http://www.shareable.net/blog/enriching-the-commons-marvin-browns-economics-of-provision
10. Axel Bruns, theorizing Produsage
11. Chris Carlsson *, Nowtopia, on local productive economic associations
12. Kevin Carson **, mutualism, relocalized production
13. Manuel Castells, networked society
14. Chris Cook, Open Capital
15. David de Ugarte **, on Phyles as a new global organisational form, http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22David+de+Ugarte%22&fulltext=Search
16. Charles Eisenstein *, author of The Ascent of Humanity and Sacred Economics
17. Rick Falkvinge, Pirate Party founder
18. Silvia Federici: [1], role of women in the commons
19. Jorge Ferrer **, participatory spirituality
20. Alex Foti, precarious workers movement, Italy
21. Mayo Fuster-Morell, European social movements, modalities of open source and platform governance
22. Alexander Galloway, Protocollary Power in networks
23. Lisa Gansky *, on the Mesh Economy
24. Neal Gorenflo **, editor of Shareable magazine, on sharing as a social practice
25. Thomas Greco **, Open Money and Credit Commons
26. Michael Gurstein, community networks
27. Joss Hands *, digitally-empowered political activism
28. Paul Hartzog **, on complexity, panarchy, and global governance
29. Silke Helfrich **, commons researcher and advocate
30. John Heron **, participatory spirituality, cooperative inquiry
31. Pekka Himanen, the hacker ethic
32. Brian Holmes
33. Wolfgang Hoechsele **, economics of abundance
34. Pat Kane **, author the Play Ethic
35. Athina Karatzogianni **, cyberconflicts
36. Dmytri Kleiner **, anti-capitalist peer production through Venture Communism
37. Lawrence Lessig, IP law, creator of Creative Commons
38. Simona Levi **, founder and leader of the Free Culture Forum
39. Bernard Lietaer, monetary reform and transformation
40. Alessandro Ludovico, Neural.it, p2p art and culture, Italy
41. Ezio Manzini **, local mutual aid oriented inititiatives by civil society groups
42. Armin Medosch
43. Massimo Menichelli, on Open Design
44. Glyn Moody, active free software advocate and commentator
45. Phoebe Moore **, global labour trends
46. George Pór **, theorizing Collective Intelligence
47. Mathieu O'Neill **, governance of open source communities
48. Apichai Puntasen, Thailand, Buddhist Economics
49. James Quilligan **, theorizing the Global Commons
50. John Robb *, open source insurgencies and resilient communities, http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22John+Robb%22&fulltext=Search
51. Andy Robinson, social movement thinker, UK
52. David Ronfeldt**
53. Douglas Rushkoff **, author, development of democratic cyber culture
54. Sam Rose **, peer production and local communities, open p2p infrastructures
55. Nikos Salingaros **, on P2P Urbanism
56. Juliet Schor *, economics of abundance
57. Trebor Scholz **, distributed creativity
58. Orsan Senalp**, p2p and labor
59. Clay Shirky *, the Cognitive Surplus making possible bottom-up Peer Production
60. Felix Stalder, theorizing free culture and open movements
61. Richard Stallman, founder of free software
62. Don Tapskott, author of Wikinomics
63. Tiziana Terranova, exploitation of free labour in networks
64. Tere Vaden **, the Political Economy of Digital Literacy
65. Jeff Vail *, a theory of distributed power http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22Jeff+Vail%22&fulltext=Search
66. Roberto Verzola **, on the economics of abundance and scarcity, http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22Roberto+Verzola%22&fulltext=Search
67. Eric von Hippel *, user-led innovation in industrial production
68. Hilary Wainwright **, democratic and participatory public services, and the link between the commons and labour, http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?s=%22Hilary+Wainwright%22
69. Jay Walljasper **, All That We Share, on the emergence of local commons initiatives
70. Mackenzie Wark *, author of the Hacker's Manifesto, a class analysis of the Hacking Class
71. 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

(This list is updated here: 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.