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Thinking about ways of mainstreaming the co-op model, the idea that keeps coming up is something like a co-op layer on top of a site like Meetup.
Nathan Schneider gives an introduction to the concept of platform co-operativism and why the digital economy can learn from the tradition of co-operatives.
David Bollier's presentation to the Agence Française de Développement in Paris outlining the commons as an alternative vision of "development."
Last month Shareable wrote a great article entitled “11 Platform Cooperatives Creating a Real Sharing Economy“. It’s a really nice list of projects who are all moving in the right direction (i.e. toward greater sharing of ownership and control), but some of them aren’t actually co-operatives. This got me thinking: Should organisations that are not... Continue reading →
Unless technologies are explicitly designed to reduce inequality, they wind up exacerbating it. Reflections on Yochai Benkler's closing remarks at Ouishare.
Sociologist Erik Olin Wright explains why a basic income would not be a “disincentive” to work (unlike means-tested anti-poverty programs).
The Precious Plastic project provides open source designs and instruction manuals for the free sharing of cheap DIY machinery to recycle plastics everywhere
A series of proposals and more than 120 policy recommendations for governments, ending in a joint statement of public policies for the collaborative economy
Photo By Nicholas Zambetti – http://www.arduino.cc/, CC BY-SA 3.0, This exploratory essay posits the idea of ‘cosmo-localism’ (or ‘cosmo-localization’) as a potentially useful concept in both explaining a new economic model and in formulating sustainable development pathways. It is a thought stimulation exercise that invites us to join a conversation about the design of a new... Continue reading →
My previous four posts centred on several projects associated with the Catalan Integral Cooperative (AureaSocial, MaCUS, CASX and SOM Pujarnol). In this one I would like to share with you my notes on one of the most active CIC committees, known as the CAC. The Central d’Abastiment Catalana (CAC), which means “Catalan Supply Center”, was... Continue reading →
The 'Not Alone' report offers solution for freelance workers with analyses, useful detail and lessons from the history of co-operatives and mutual aid.
The more aware we become of how nature works, the more clearly we recognize that we are an integral, regenerative part of the planetary system: Gaia.
The real wealth in the future does not come from saving labor but in creating new kinds of things to do. Long-term wealth depends on making new labor.
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Consumerism was an experiment that failed. It led us down a dead end. Only by letting go – or, rather, only by ripping ourselves free – can we transcend it.
Michel Bauwens: A note on the post-capitalist strategy of the P2P Foundation How to create a Post-Capitalist strategy? As expressed in our previous posts — where we describe the work of Kojin Karatani— we agree that the present system is based on a trinity of capital-state-nation, and that this reflects the integration of three modes... Continue reading →
As citizens, we have to decide where we stand: with the old system that's dying, or for a new system that we [ourselves] have to birth?
The Care-Centered Economy suggests how the idea of “care” could be used to imagine new structural terms for the entire economy.
Michel Bauwens (Madison, Wisconsin), June 12, 2016: Part One – Analyzing the global situation One of the best books I have read in the last ten years is undoubtedly, The Structure of World History, by Kojin Karatini.
During the late Middle ages Europeans formed alliances which were based primarily not on kinship, but on some other common characteristic such as occupation
Herman Daly analyses how interest (money theory) is related to the function of capital (economic theory) and how both are embedded in a real physical world.
It's indeed a remarkable synthesis of where the P2P movement is at, and how it is both grappling with the tensions in the world and within the movements.
This paper analyses the main fault lines of the industrial food system and the consequences of the absolute commodification of food.
The Backfeed Protocol provides a comprehensive social operating system for decentralized organisations and collaborations (DCs)
Announcing the launch of a new grassroots initiative to explore and promote the notion of a Credit Commons and inter-operable currencies.
"The state is like a household that should not spend more than it earns" This kind of ‘handbag economics’ draws its analogy from erroneous myths.
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