The Commons as a New | Old Paradigm for Governance, Economics and Policy – Part One

The commons has been my passion for the past fifteen years. This shift in my energies came about as I became disillusioned in the mid-1990s with the liberal imaginary as a credible vehicle for change and as I recognized the powerful surge of commons-based alternatives on the periphery of mainstream politics and culture. I’d like to introduce the commons paradigm as a very old—and yet very new,…

The Commons as a New | Old Paradigm for Governance, Economics and Policy – Part Two

The Value Proposition of the Commons If the Market/State is an engine of enclosure, what then can be done? I think we must begin by recognizing the value proposition of the commons and then devise new systems—legal, technological, social—to protect the integrity of the commons. We can take some guidance from an old practice of English commoners. They used to ‘beat the bounds’ every year. It…

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