Commons-Oriented Economists

Directory

• Gender gap in Commons-Oriented Economists according to this list: 17% women / 83 men (4 women / 23 men). (Similar (although a bit more women) to gender gap in Wikipedia participation)

A list originally compiled by David Bollier:

1. Philippe Aigrain, free culture, IP and filesharing economics
2. Peter Barnes [1], Pt. Reyes Station, California (former entrepreneur; commons; Sky Trust) *
3. Yochai Benkler [2], Harvard Law School (digital commons; not an economist, but he might as well be)
4. Sam Bowles, Santa Fe Institute (economics as seen through complexity theory & evolutionary sciences)
5. James Boyce, UMass Amherst (ecological economics)
6. Eric Britton [3], urban transportation economist
7. Ellen Brown, reforming finance
8. Alain Caille, MAUSS, France, Gift Economy
9. Kevin Carson, mutualist economics centered around distributed manufacturing
10. Padmasiri de Silva, Monash, Melbourne (Buddhist economics)
11. Herman Daly, steady-state economics
12. Peter Daniels. Griffith, Brisbane (Buddhist economics)
13. Riane Eisler, (suggested by Nancy Roof), on dominator vs partnership economies
14. Gerald Epstein, UMass Amherst (cooperatives)
15. Josh Farley, U. of Vermont (ecological economics, community development)
16. Ian Fletcher, author of "Free Trade Doesn't Work: What Should Replace It and Why" (http://www.freetradedoesntwork.com/). [4]
17. Nancy Folbre, UMass Amherst (feminist economics/caring economy)
18. Andrea Fumagalli, Italy, Cognitive Capitalism
19. Katherine Gibson, Australia (community economics; former writing partner with the late Julie Graham, a.k.a., J.-K. Gibson-Graham)
20. Thomas Greco, instituting Credit Commons
21. Friederike Habermann. Silke Helfrich writes: "ecommonist, rather than an economist; Actually she frames the world we are all struggling for as Ecommony."
22. Richard Heinberg, a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute (ecological economist, commons orientation?)
23. Hazel Henderson, Ethical Markets
24. Wolfgang Hoeschele, geographer at Truman State University, Missouri (Solidarity Economy, commons)
25. David Korten, author
26. Julie Matthaei - wolfgang Hoechsele writes: "she's a feminist economist, involved in the US Solidarity Economy Network. I don't think she's published on the commons per se but she is definitely supportiveof the approach." (jmatthaei@wellesley.edu)
27. Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean ecological economist. Book: From an Economics of Power and Greed to an Economics of Compassion and the Common Good‎
28. Yann Moulier-Boutang, distributed taxation, Cognitive Capitalism
29. Antonio Negri [5] 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."
30. Richard Norgaard, UC Berkeley
31. Elinor Ostrom [6], Arizona State & Indiana U. (commons; not an economist, but she might as well be)
32. Apichai Puntasen, Thailand, Buddhist Economics
33. James Quilligan, essays on the Global Commons in Kosmos Journal, etc ..
34. Wolfgang Sachs, Wuppertal Institute, Germany
35. 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. Green Economics Institute in England [7]; Wolfgang Hoechsele writes: "they are very much interested in social and environmental justice. The directors of the institute are Miriam Kennet (contact at Miriam Kennet <greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com> and Volker Heinemann); they could probably suggest further economists

supportive of the commons.

1. New Economics Institute, U.S.A.: E.F. Schumacher Foundation spinoff with ties to New Economics Foundation in UK, which aspires to develop alternative economic approaches.

Commons-Oriented Thinkers

1. Iain Boal [8]
2. George Caffentzis [9]
3. Peter Linebaugh, commons historian
4. Raj Patel [10]

Historical:

1. Gerrard Winstanley [11]

To add later

• Thanks to the work of a small, brave group of dissident economists — scholars like Ralph Gomory, William Baumol, Erik Reinert, and Ha-Joon Chang — the credibility of free trade as a theoretical doctrine is crumbling, and the discipline will eventually change its mind.