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

Labour as a Commons

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

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]

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
• 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