Books on Commons Economics

General Books on Commons Economics

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

Related Heterodox Alternative Economics

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

• 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

• 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).

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).

Labor

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

Water

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