Commons-Oriented Economists

Directory

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. Alain Caille, MAUSS, France, Gift Economy
6. Herman Daly, steady-state economics
7. Gerald Epstein, UMass Amherst (cooperatives)
8. Josh Farley, U. of Vermont (ecological economics, community development)
9. Nancy Folbre, UMass Amherst (feminist economics/caring economy)
10. Andrea Fumagalli, Italy, Cognitive Capitalism
11. Katherine Gibson, Australia (community economics; former writing partner with the late Julie Graham, a.k.a., J.-K. Gibson-Graham)
12. Richard Heinberg, a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute (ecological economist, commons orientation?)
13. Hazel Henderson, Ethical Markets
14. Wolfgang Hoeschele, Truman State University, Missouri (Solidarity Economy, commons)
15. David Korten, author
16. Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean ecological economist
17. Yann Moulier-Boutang, Cognitive Capitalism
18. Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, authors of Commonwealth. George Por writes: "They are not economists in an economistic sense but the book is excellent, in the best traditions of political economy. Their analysis refines and goes beyond the triangular model of public, private, and commons sphere, so popular currently in the commons movement."
19. Richard Norgaard, UC Berkeley
20. Elinor Ostrom, Arizona State & Indiana U. (commons; not an economist, but she might as well be)
21. Apichai Puntasen, Thailand, Buddhist Economics
22. Wolfgang Sachs, Wuppertal Institute, Germany
23. Marilyn Waring, New Zealand: "If Women Counted". This feminist analysis of modern economics reveals how economic theory automatically excludes women's housework, caring of the young, sick and the old from value of people. Waring later produced a documentary on the same topic, Who's Counting.

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.