P2P Book of the Year 2012
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1. Majorie Kelly. Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution. Journeys to a Generative Economy. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012
URL = http://www.OwningOurFuture.com
""As long as businesses are set up to focus exclusively on maximizing financial income for the few, our economy will be locked into endless growth and widening inequality. But now people across the world are experimenting with new forms of ownership, which Kelly calls generative: aimed at creating the conditions for all of life to thrive for many generations to come. These designs may hold the key to the deep transformation our civilization needs." [1]
1.b Enrico Grazzini. The Good of Everyone. The Sharing Economy as a Way Out of the Crisis (Editori Internazionali Riuniti, 2011
"The thesis of this book is that, to overcome the current dramatic economic and ecological crisis, it is necessary to create and develop a polycentric economy based on common goods and not just on market monoculture or state intervention1. We firmly believe that neither the spontaneous market forces nor a public intervention alone can solve the problems created by this double crisis. Quite the contrary, things could even get worse. It is necessary to promote a different type of economy based on the sharing and the self management of common goods, that is, those goods that need to be shared by communities due to their very nature – such as science, the Internet, information, the environment, air and water, currency, natural resources, means of communication, transport, etc.. It is also necessary to encourage economic democracy and the workers' participation on company boards to thwart speculation and develop a stronger, fair, sustainable economy."
1.c Practicing Law in the Sharing Economy: Helping People Build Cooperatives, Social Enterprise, and Local Sustainable Economies. Janelle Orsi. SELC, 2012
URL = http://www.theselc.org/book/
"To most law students and lawyers, practicing transactional law isn’t an obvious path to saving the world. But as the world’s economic and ecological meltdowns demand that we redesign our livelihoods, our enterprises, our communities, our organizations, our food system, our housing, and much more, transactional lawyers are needed, en masse, to aid in an epic reinvention of our economic system. This reinvention is referred to by many names—the “sharing economy,” the “grassroots economy,” the “new economy.” This new economy facilitates community ownership, localized production, sharing, cooperation, small scale enterprise, and the regeneration of economic and natural abundance. Sharing economy lawyers make the exploding numbers of social enterprises, cooperatives, urban farms, cohousing communities, time banks, local currencies, and the vast array of unique organizations arising from the sharing economy possible and legal. There are nine primary areas of work that sharing economy lawyers should become familiar with, and each is addressed in a chapter."
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2. The Wealth of the Commons. A world beyond market and state. Ed. by David Bollier and Silke Helfrich. Commons Strategies Group. Levellers Press, 2012
URL = http://www.wealthofthecommons.org
"Never before have so many different international voices about the commons been brought together in one volume. The Wealth of the Commons consists of 73 essays by a diverse roster of international activists, academics and project leaders. It consists of descriptions of specific commons innovations, essays on the theory and economics of commons, accounts of different types of enclosures around the world, and much else."
2.b The Globalization of Communes, Yaacov Oved. Transaction Publishers, 2012.
URL = http://www.transactionpub.com/title/Globalization-of%20Communes-978-1-4128-4948-7.html
"How have communes adjusted to a global world? After World War II, membership in communes and cooperative communities became internationally oriented and such communities began networking. Unlike earlier communal organizations, these groups shared openness to international relationships. This became evident both in the groups' social composition, and in the extension of networks beyond their own countries. Such globalization opened up the possibility of comparative analysis, which has become a trend in research on communal organizations since the 1950s. The dynamism and speed with which communities have spread throughout the world is impressive. In the 1950s there were only a few hundred such societies, but by the end of the last century there were thousands."
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3. The End of the Market. The rise of the service economy and the death of the market-clearing price. Author?
URL = https://sites.google.com/site/theendofthemarket/home
"The End of the Market argues that the credit crunch crisis of 2008 is not a bump in the road of the liberal era, but its end. But out of the ashes of rational individualism, a new vision is emerging where the community is the defining organisation and obligations, freely accepted and willingly discharged, become the engine of human progress."
2.b The Shareholder Value Myth. Lynn Stout. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. 2012
URL = http://www.amazon.com/The-Shareholder-Value-Myth-Shareholders/dp/1605098132
"Ben Schiller:
"Stout’s book The Shareholder Value Myth looks at the pervasiveness of the "shareholder value" idea, and finds it has more basis in intellectual fashion than the law. She traces it back to an article by the economist Milton Friedman in 1970, which said that the social responsibility of companies is to increase profits, and to a highly influential 1976 paper that says shareholders are owners, and managers merely their agents. In fact, says Stout, U.S. law doesn’t give shareholders any special consideration. And shareholders are not "owners," in the sense of, say, car or home owners." [2]
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4 Brett Frischmann. Infrastructure: Social Value of Shared Resources. Oxford University Press, 2012 ;
"devotes much needed attention to understanding how society benefits from infrastructure resources and how management decisions affect a wide variety of interests. The book links infrastructure, a particular set of resources defined in terms of the manner in which they create value, with commons, a resource management principle by which a resource is shared within a community. The infrastructure commons ideas have broad implications for scholarship and public policy across many fields ranging from traditional infrastructure like roads to environmental economics to intellectual property to Internet policy."
4.b Consent of the Networked. The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom. Rebecca MacKinnon
"Drawing upon two decades of experience as an international journalist, co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices, Chinese Internet censorship expert, and Internet freedom activist, MacKinnon offers a framework for concerned citizens to understand the complex and often hidden power dynamics amongst governments, corporations, and citizens in cyberspace. She warns that a convergence of unchecked government actions and unaccountable company practices threatens the future of democracy and human rights around the world."
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5. Internet Success: A Study of Open-Source Software Commons. By Charles M. Schweik and Robert C. English. MIT Press, 2012.
"the first large-scale empirical study to look at the social, technical and institutional aspects of free, libre and open source software"
5.b Coding Freedom: the ethics and aesthetics of hacking. E. Gabriella Coleman. Princeton University Press. 2013
URL = http://gabriellacoleman.org/Coleman-Coding-Freedom.pdf
"an ethnography of Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) hackers working on the Debian Linux Operating System: "Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software--and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project--reveal about the values of contemporary liberalism? Exploring the rise and political significance of the free and open source software (F/OSS) movement in the United States and Europe, Coding Freedom details the ethics behind hackers' devotion to F/OSS, the social codes that guide its production, and the political struggles through which hackers question the scope and direction of copyright and patent law. In telling the story of the F/OSS movement, the book unfolds a broader narrative involving computing, the politics of access, and intellectual property."
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- Makers (nonfiction) ; Intention Economy
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- Tweets and the Streets; Steven Johnson. Future, Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age.; Essays about Pirate Politics ; Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous and the Global Cyber Insurgency ; Paul Mason's "Why it’s Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions" (Verso); Occupy Handbook; The Will of the Many: How the Alterglobalisation Movement is Changing the Face of Democracy. Marianne Maeckelbergh. Pluto Press, 2009 - January 1, 2012 ; People Power and Political Change - January 20, 2012
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- Net Smart: How to Thrive Online. By Howard Rheingold. ; Abolishing Education and Liberating Creation ; Peeragogy Handbook ; Truth in the Age of Social Media
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- Future Money; Promise of Regional Currencies; What Comes After Money; Local Dollars, Local Sense
- Lost Science of Money ; Life Without Money; Building Fair and Sustainable Economies. Co-edited by Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman. - January 16, 2012
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- Religion and Equality in Human Evolution Books: Robert Bellah. 1) Religion in Human Evolution' Spretnak, C. Relational Reality: New discoveries of Interrelatedness That Are Transforming the Modern World Topsham: Green Horizon Books, 2011 ; Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior; Cyberspace and the Self-Management of the Self
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- Sharing for Survival; Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy ; Building Fair and Sustainable Economies ; Cultures and Ethics of Sharing
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- Digital Labor ; Guy Standing, The Precariat. The new dangerous class (Bloomsbury Academic 2011), viii, 198p - January 7, 2012
First
- Rebel Cities
- Betterness: Economics for Humans. by Umair Haque. Harvard Business Press Books, 2011 - January 18, 2012
Second
- Too Big to Know. David Weinberger ; Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks
Artisanal
- The P2P Mode of Production: An Indiano Manifesto.
- Producism Manifesto
Tom Atlee. Empowering Public Wisdom: A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics. EVOLVER EDITIONS/North Atlantic Books, 2012.
Also
Media Ecosystem The Organic Internet. May First / People Link. [2]