Commons-Oriented Economists
Directory
A list originally compiled by David Bollier:
- Peter Barnes, Pt. Reyes Station, California (former entrepreneur; commons; Sky Trust) *
- Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School (digital commons; not an economist, but he might as well be)
- Sam Bowles, Santa Fe Institute (economics as seen through complexity theory & evolutionary sciences)
- James Boyce, UMass Amherst (ecological economics)
- Alain Caille, MAUSS, France, Gift Economy
- Herman Daly, steady-state economics
- Gerald Epstein, UMass Amherst (cooperatives)
- Josh Farley, U. of Vermont (ecological economics, community development)
- Nancy Folbre, UMass Amherst (feminist economics/caring economy)
- Andrea Fumagalli, Italy, Cognitive Capitalism
- Katherine Gibson, Australia (community economics; former writing partner with the late Julie Graham, a.k.a., J.-K. Gibson-Graham)
- Wolfgang Hoeschele, Truman State University, Missouri (Solidarity Economy, commons)
- David Korten, author
- Yann Moulier-Boutang, Cognitive Capitalism
- Richard Norgaard, UC Berkeley
- Elinor Ostrom, Arizona State & Indiana U. (commons; not an economist, but she might as well be)
- Apichai Puntasen, Thailand, Buddhist Economics
- Wolfgang Sachs, Wuppertal Institute, Germany
See also:
- Robert Costanza, U. of Oregon (a leading ecological economist; not sure of commons-orientation)
Organisations:
- Association for Georgist Studies (the Henry George crowd)
- E.F. Schumacher Foundation: hosts annual lecture series that often includes iconoclastic economist-types
- New Economics Institute: Schumacher spinoff with ties to New Economics Foundation in UK, which aspires
to develop alternative economic approaches.