Books on Commons Economics

General Books on Commons Economics

• Hoeschele, Wolfgang. The Economics of Abundance: A Political Economy of Freedom, Equity, and Sustainability. Gower Publishing, 2010

• Schor, Juliet. Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth. Penguin, 2010

General books on the commons:

Walljasper, Jay. All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons.

Related Heterodox Alternative Economics

• Arnsperger, Christian. Full-Spectrum Economics. Christian Arnsperger. Routledge, 2010: "Once the external and internal sides of the "We" and the "I" are all taken into account, economics needs to be re-thought almost completely and made into a highly pluralistic discipline."

• Brown, Marvin T. Civilizing the Economy. A new economics of provision. Cambridge University Press, 2010 [1]

• Cobb, John. Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on Global Economy. (1995).

• Daly, H., and Cobb, J.B., 1990. For the Common Good: redirecting the economy towards community, the environment and a sustainable future. London: Green Print.

• Gibson-Graham, J.-K. (2006), A Postcapitalist Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).

Commons Governance

• Bromley, D., and Feeny, D. (eds) (1992), Making the Commons Work: Theory, Practice and Policy (San Francisco: ICS press).

Ostrom, E. (1990), Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Commons Property

• Baslar, Kemal. The Concept of the Common Heritage of Mankind in International Law (Developments in International Law, Vol 30). Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1997

• Simms, A., Drury, J., Trathen, K., and Boyle, D. (2003), Limits to Property: The Failure of Restrictive Property Regimes in the Modern World (London: New Economics Foundation). Available online at http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/limits-property.

Special Topics

On Abundance and Scarcity

• Economic Abundance: An Introduction. By William M. Dugger and James T. Peach.

• Ivan Illich. Toward a History of Needs. (1978) : focuses on "the sociogenesis of needs"; brings a historical perspective to the demand side of the scarcity equation.

• Michael Perelman: Marx, Malthus, and the Concept of Natural Resource Scarcity (1979).

• Nicholas Xenos's Scarcity and Modernity (1989).

• The Limits to Scarcity: Contesting the Politics of Allocation, edited by Lyla Mehta

On Enclosures

• Bollier, D. (2003), Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth (New York: Routledge).

Politics and Movements

• Bollier, David. "Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own" New Press, 2009, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license at www.viralspiral.cc

Value

• The Ethical Economy. Rebuilding Value After the Crisis. By Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen. Columbia University Press, 2013

Special Resource-Specific Topics

Atmosphere

• Barnes, P. (2001), Who Owns the Sky? Our Common Assets and the Future of Capitalism (Washington, DC: Island Press).

Knowledge

• Lessig, L. (2001), The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (New York: Random House).

Money, Banking and Finance

• Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free (Revised and Updated) By Ellen Hodgson Brown. [2]

Labor

• Jobs, Liberty and the Bottom Line, Tom Walker,

Public Infrastructures

• Global Auction of Public Assets: Public sector alternatives to the infrastructure market & Public Private Partnerships. by Dexter Whitfield. Spokesman Books, 2010. [3]: "demonstrates why new public investment priorities are needed with radical changes in global financial markets and the abandonment of the Public Private Partnership model."

Water

• Bakker, K. (2003), An Uncooperative Commodity: Privatizing Water in England and Wales (Oxford: Oxford University Press).