Elinor Ostrom

The commons: beyond the market vs. state dilemma

Submitted by SoC Steward
on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 14:10

Elinor Ostrom, the Nobel Prizewinner who died this week, pioneered this work. Value is created through the logic of sharing with others in an open and even casual way. Innovation is no longer a monopoly, unassailably colonised by mercantile initiative.

Out of the rubble of the failed financial system

Submitted by Yva Alexandrova
on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 23:33

The emergence of a commons-based economy seminar series

Out of the rubble of the failed financial system, economic recession, overconsumption and continuing environmental degradation the commons approach represents a coherent alternative model for a system based on social justice and environmental sustainability.

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