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Sociologist Erik Olin Wright explains why a basic income would not be a “disincentive” to work (unlike means-tested anti-poverty programs). 
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In the context of the Ecuadorian transition project towards a open commons-based knowledge society, see Floksociety.org, and to complement the prior analysis of three competing economic models in the age of peer production, I have formulated some transition proposals, on how to get from Phase 2, emerging peer production in the context of the dominance... Continue reading →
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It’s time to examine and broaden the debate on how to fund a universal basic income
jean lievens's insight:
COMMONS TRANSITION ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED ESSAY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P PUBLIC POLICY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS SHARINGcommons tr
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“Not hat long ago, I had a conversation with Ioannis Margaris, the CEO of the Greek state energy producer, a technician and economic theorist who is investing a lot of his own energy in transforming Greek electricity production into peer-to-peer production. Before he joined the energy firm’s senior executive team Margaris was a researcher at …
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* Article: Common Wealth Trusts: Structures of Transition. Peter Barnes. August 2015. Here’s the summary thesis of the article, followed by an extensive excerpted discussion: “Common wealth, properly organized, provides a way to address the two greatest flaws in contemporary capitalism—its relentless destruction of nature and widening of inequality—while still keeping the benefits that markets …
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The city as a commons is a claim on the city by the people that calls for us to rethink how cities are governed and resources allocated and by whom.
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“Data on patterns and infrastructure must be a collective property, managed by the government. Each new player on the market must have a chance to become at least as large as other providers. A decentralized market benefits the user and provides tax revenues that could be collected locally. We look forward to the introduction of …
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#Global Goals? It's high time UN agencies and the mainstream media acknowledge the true scale of global poverty
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A campaign which highlights the true reality of poverty while pointing the way towards real solutions for a fair and sustainable world.
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“There is an alternative to disaster capitalism and to the dictatorship of the financial markets. It requires a revolution in our concepts about money, share-capital, labour-remuneration and land-real estate. In this first volume by Michel Laloux, we discover a triple circulation of money – for everyday consumption, financing enterprises and the contribution to the non-merchant economy. This triple circulation of money is therefore at the service of the real economy and dispenses with the fictitious and with speculation. Three forms of monetary institutions are conceived as a new type of public service, run by civil society. These institutions will organise this threefold circulation, without recourse to investors nor to a central bank.
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What kind of system change is possible? How do we understand and contribute to this change? What practical steps can we take as individuals and in our communities?
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The City of Bologna is pioneering a new paradigm of municipal governance that suggests that there are some practical, bottom-up alternatives to bureaucracy.
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“We the peoples of the democratic autonomous regions – Kurds, Arabs and Assyrians (Assyrian Chaldeans, Arameans), Turkmen, Armenians, and Chechens – by our free will have announced this contract to establish justice, freedom and democracy in accordance with the principle of ecological balance and equality without discrimination on the basis of religion, language, faith sect or gender; to realize the values of a democratic society and a life together based in a political and moral framework which promotes mutual understanding and coexistence within diversity; and to ensure the rights of women and children, protection, self-defense and the respect of the freedom of religion and belief.
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A series of proposals and more than 120 policy recommendations for governments, ending in a joint statement of public policies for the collaborative economy
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Ken Webster focuses on a necessarily 'wholistic' or 'integrative' understanding of the circular economy characterized by the Garden Brain.
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This is excerpted from the second part of an in-depth review of the book, Commun, by Martin O’Shaughnessy. Here, first in summary, are the nine propositions: * Proposition 1: it is necessary to construct a politics of the common: * Proposition 2: we must mobilise rights of use to challenge property rights. * Proposition 3: …
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The paper will offer a more progressive vision to the smart city vision to legitimate city as commons ideas within the domain of civic public policy
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Excerpted from Boyd Cohen: “The sharing economy is way beyond unicorns and death stars. There are millions of people around the world actively engaged in sharing activities whereby no money changes hands whatsoever (e.g. repair cafés, Peerby, tool libraries, Freecycle, Little Free Libraries, open source software, clothing swaps, timebanks, and more) or, at a minimum, …
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This manifesto is supported by a string of personalities from the business side of the new economy as well: “Common ground for independent workers: Principles for delivering a stable and flexible safety net for all types of work “New technologies and business models are fundamentally changing the economic landscape across the country, adding value to …
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Rob Hopkins introduces the Transition Network's new book compilation: '21 Stories of Transition'
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is it possible that Klein’s analysis is right on the politics and the solutions, but incomplete in terms of an overarching strategy for how to get there?
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The Sustainable Development Goals say that we’re on track to ending global poverty by 2030, but only by prioritising economic growth at all costs.
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“Greece is probably a peculiar case within Europe in that the state never had a positive role of economic redistribution and the welfare mechanisms were rudimentary even when they existed in the “good days” before the crisis severely hit. This is probably why within the social movements there are presently many voices that not only are anti-austerity or anti-neoliberal, but envision a whole new path that leads us away from state-sponsored capitalism.
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Thanks to Irma Wilson of FutureSharp, South Africa, for her assistance in producing this screencast, presenting the different proposals of the P2P Foundation on one overview slide, which is explained here: “The three key responses we see from the world in crisis can be grouped as the movements around Sustainability, Openness and Solidarity, gives the …
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Commons Transition aims to re-organise society and the economy to put the Commons at the core of value creation and distribution.
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