Nathan Cravens

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Books

Timelines

• Anti-Capitalist Dictionary
• How The Web Was Born
• London. A Biography.

Reference Shelf

• The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization. Martin Parker, Valerie Fournier, Patrick Reedy

Right Society

• Desigining Freedom. Stafford Beer
• Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth. Richard Buckminster Fuller
• Kevin Smith. Free is Cheaper
• Kropotkin. Colin Ward. Workshops Tomorrow
• Envisioning Real Utopia

Executive Program

• Exponential Organizations. Salim Ismail et al.
• BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World. Peter Diamandis & Steven Kotler

Economics

• Lewis Hyde. The Gift
• Carlota Perez. Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital
• Raj Patel. The Value of Nothing
• Immanuel Wallerstein. World Systems Analysis: An Introduction
• Robert Theobald. The Guaranteed Income
• Robert Freedman. Marx on Economics

Inequality

• Spirit Level

History

• The Robber Barons. Mathew Josephson
• The Quest for AI. Nils J. Nilsson
• Paul Clark & Julian Freeman. Design
• Paul Lafargue. Evolution of Property
• David Petegorsky. Left-wing Democracy in the English Civil War: Gerrard Winstanley and the Digger Movement
• Martin Cohen. Political Philosophy: From Plato to Mao
• Anthony Hall. Earth into Property
• Noam Chomsky. Occupy

Peer Production

• Clay Shirky. Here Comes Everybody
• Chris Anderson. The Long Tail
• Matt Mason. The Pirates Dilemma
• Richard Sennet. Together: Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics

Innovation

• Steven Johnson. Where Good Ideas Come From
• Atul Gawande. The Checklist Manifesto

Intelligence

• Marvin Minsky. Emotion Machine

Inspiration

• Alan Watts. In My Own Way

Intelligence

• CSAIL. Marvin Minsky. Emotion Machine

Life Systems

Food

• MIT City Farm

Common Stores

• Freeshops
• Tool Librarys

Nathan's Writings

Political Economy

• The Sixth Revolution?
• An Urban Singularity: The Combining of Global Cities as a Unitarian Architectural Project
• A Universal Commons Code of Ethics
• Hard Takeoff
• Free Markets and Free Use Commons
  • Financial commons
• Effortless Economy
• Mutually Assured Production

Technology

• Public Resource Network
• Automated Distribution Systems
• Global Localization and Manipulation Engine
• Open Manufacturing
• The Holistic Problem of Manufacturing
• Universal Grid Computing
• General Manufacturing Robotics

Business

• The Supremist Corporation Manifesto

Interviews

Video

• Resource Distribution at Tent City University Library
• Day 15, Interview at "Starbooks"

Text

• Occupy London's library provides shelf help

Child Education

• Child Home Education

User Contributions

• User Contributions