Discussions on Commons Economics

Abundance vs. Scarcity

• Roberto Verzola on Undermining vs. Developing Abundance
• Juliet Schor on the Four Fundamentals of Plenitude

Institutions for the Commons

• David Ronfeldt on the Assurance Commons
• David Ronfeldt on the Chamber of the Commons
• Christian Arnsperger on: Fostering New Governance through the Creation of a World Transition Organization

Labour as a Commons

• From Labour as Commodity to Labour as a Common. Draft of an article by Hilary Wainwright

Money as a Commons

• Re-thinking Money Creation and Fostering a new Ecology of Currencies, by Christian Arnsperger

• Transforming Finance Group's Call Recognizes Finance as a Global Commons: by The Committee on Transforming Finance, a multinational network of career market participants with Hazel Henderson, Ellen Brown et al.

• Money is Not a Thing, but a Relation; by Ellen Brown

• What is Abundance-Based Money?, by Eli Gothill

Subjectivities

• Balancing Individualism and Communitarianism. Allen Butcher.

• Communitarianism in a Market Culture. Allen Butcher.

The State and the Commons

• David Ronfeldt in Dialogue with the Partner State Concept. Discusses: 1) Bauwens anticipates the “partner state” ; 2) The big picture of which the partner state is a part; 3) P2P as the transforming form; 4) P2P networks vis à vis other forms of organization. Available via http://twotheories.blogspot.com/2011/07/bauwens-partner-state-part-1-of-2-vis.html

• The commons, the state, and transformative politics. Hilary Wainwright [1]. See: Commons, State, and Transformative Politics

• Co-Creative Labor, Productive Democracy and the Partner State: By Hilary Wainwright. a very important text to reset government policies for the p2p age. The text discusses: 1 A value revolution in labor; 2 Re-constituting industrial strategies based on co-creative labor ; 3 The Co-Creative Economy needs a Partner State [2]

• James Quilligan: The Role of the State in the Commons

• Christian Arnsperger:

1. Fostering New Governance through the Creation of a World Transition Organization
2. Fostering New Governance through Participatory Coordination and Communalism

Towards Equitable Markets

• Wolfgang Hoeschele on How To Achieve More Equitable Exchange Relationships

• Wouter Tebbens: Can We Liberate the Market through Commons Governance? [3]

• Marvin Brown: Civic Conversations vs. Commercial Conversations

Towards Equitable Resource Use

• Wolfgang Hoeschele on Contributory Resource Use ; from the book, The Economics of Abundance
• James Quilligan on Cap and Rent for Climate Change
• Juliet Schor on the Two Types of Economic Growth ; from the book, Plenitude: New Economics of True Wealth

Towards Equitable Property Rights

• Wolfgang Hoeschele: Resource Use and Property Rights to Minimize Scarcity
• Marvin Brown on Civic Liberty vs. Property Liberty
• Marvin Brown: Civic Membership vs Market Ownership
• James Quilligan: Public Goods vs Common Goods

Transition Strategies

• Christian Arnsperger on the Concept of Transition and Six Framework Conditions for Global Systemic Change: "The main framework conditions that I believe would be needed for a genuine transition to a sustainable pluri-economy to get off the ground:"

1. De-growth and an Economic Kyoto Protocol
2. Fostering New Governance through the Creation of a World Transition Organization
3. Fostering New Governance through Participatory Coordination and Communalism
4. Introducing an Economic Transition Income
5. Deepening Economic Democracy and Encouraging New Forms of Entrepreneurship
6. Re-thinking Money Creation and Fostering a new Ecology of Currencies