The Commons

Themes : An alternative vision of the economy

15 publications

Social Alternatives in Southern Europe and Latin America

Solidarity, Mutual Aid, and Cooperation in Comparative Perspective (19th–21st Centuries)

Edited by Montserrat Duch-Plana, Josep M. Pons-Altés, Routledge Ed., March 2024
Stir Magazine : Winter 2021

January 2021

Stir to action
Stir Magazine Issue 30, Summer 2020 ‍Commoning Innovations for a Post-Pandemic World

Stir to Action, Bridport, UK, July 2020

Stir to action
The Urban Commons Cookbook: Strategies and Insights for creating and maintaining Urban Commons

Mary Dellenbaugh-Losse, Nils Eik Zimmermann, Nicole de Vries, 2020
From What is to What If. Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want.

Rob Hopkins, Chelsea Green Publishing, October 2019
Plunder of the Commons. A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth.

Guy Standing, A Pelican Book, August 2019
The commons and a New Global Governance

Edited by Samuel Cogolati, Jan Wouters, Edward Elgar Publishing, December 2018
Moving Beyond Capitalism

Edited by Cliff DuRand, Routledge, USA, August 2016
Civil Society, the Third Sector and Social Enterprise Governance and Democracy

Edited by Jean-Louis Laville, Denis Young, Philippe Eynaud, Routledge, USA, March 2015
Patterns of Commoning

The Commons strategy group

coedited by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich, The Commons strategy group and Off the Common Press, 2015
Think Like a Commoner. A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons.

David Bollier, New society Publishers, United States, April 2014
The Zero Marginal Cost Society. The internet of things, the collaborative commons and the eclipse of capitalism

Jeremy Rifkin, Palgrave Macmillan;NY, USA, April 2014
The wealth of the Commons. A world beyond Market & State

Edited by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich, Levellers Press, United States, December 2012
Sharing for Survival. Restoring the Climate, the Commons and Society.

Brian Davey, FEASTA, Ireland, April 2012
Understanding Knowledge as a Commons From Theory to Practice

Edited by Charlotte Hess, Elinor Ostrom, The MIT Press, December 2006

A thesis

Towards a New Form of Economic Development:. Why the need for an Ownership Revolution Has Neve Been Greater.

Dissertation Economics for Transition, SchumacherCollege MA , Great Britain

Jerome Birolini, August 2014

13 Videos

Going local: reclaiming the commons, building resilience with Chris Wood

Video by Local Futures

January 2022
Audio : Neera SIngh, on Community Forests in India

August 2020
The Insurgent Power of the Commons in the War Against the Imagination

Prairie Festival 2018 -The Land Institute

September 2018
Videos Commons-based Collaborative Economies Procomuns 2017

June 2017
Food as a Common Good (José Luis Vivero)

January 2017
Transform/er Montreal 2016 - John Restakis

May 2016
Voices of the Impact Economy: Michael Lewis and Michel Bauwens on Economic Democracies

October 2015
Interview of David Bollier and Benjamin Coriat on the commons

Frédéric Sultan, Sylvia FREDRIKSSON, June 2015
Transformative proposals of the p2p foundation. Michel Bauwens.

June 2015
APSARA CHAPAGAIN KHATR - Federation of community Forestry Users (FECOFUN) - Nepal

February 2014
Occupying the Commons - Teatro Valle Occupato

August 2012
Film: This Land is our land

David Bollier, December 2010
Conference on Economic Degrowth: David Barkin, Barcelona, 2010

March 2010

A pedagogical tool

Polypoly. The 21th Century economic world-building game

June 2020

One proposal

The Great Transition: Navigating Social, Economic, Ecological Change in Turbulent Times

Michael Lewis, Patrick Conaty, October 2009

CCCR, NEF, BALTA

4 case studies

Bike Kitchen Bratislava: A bike hire co-op powered by the sharing economy

Bicycles | Urban Commons Cookbook Series

Mary Dellenbaugh-Losse, July 2020
Cultivating commons in the heart of the city. Madrid community gardens against austerity urbanism

3rd EMES-Polanyi International Seminarn Welfaire societies in Transition, Roskilde, April 2018

José Luis Fernández Casadevante, Nerea Morán Alonso, Ángel Calle Collado, Nuria del Viso, April 2018

EMES
Towards “Qualitative growth”-oriented Collective Action Frameworks: Articulating Commons and Solidarity Economy

3rd EMES-Polanyi International Seminarn Welfaire societies in Transition, Roskilde, April 2018

Ana Margarida Esteves, April 2018

EMES
Nepal’s Community Forest in the Promotion of Social Solidarity Economy

Submitted to the Asian Solidarity Economy Council, on the occasion of the 5th RIPESS International Meeting of SSE, Manila, Philippines, October, 15-18, 2013.

Bhola Bhattarai, Ram Prasad Acharya, Gyanendra Karki, Suman Dhakal, October 2013

45 Analyses/working papers/articles

Governing the economics of the common good: from correcting market failures to shaping collective goals

UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Working Paper Series (IIPP WP 2023-08)

Mariana Mazzucato, October 2023
Book : The Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking : Tools for the transitions ahead

Edited by the Schumacher Intitute for a New Economics

David Bollier, January 2022
Must-read essays to understand the emerging peer to peer paradigm

April 2020
Commons and Commoning for a Just Agroecological Transition: The importance of de-colonising and de-commodifying our food systems

In book: Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions (pp.61-84)Publisher: Routledge book series “Food, Society and the Environment”.

Tomaso Ferrando, Priscilla Claeys, Dagmar Diesner, Jose Luis Vivero Pol, December 2019
Report: P2P accounting for planetary survival

Michel Bauwens, Alex Pazaitis, August 2019
Our Commons. Political ideas for a New Europe

Sophie Bloemen, Thomas de Groot, May 2019
A unanimous cry of dissent against the regime

Word Social Forum of Transformative Economies

Ruben Surinyach Padilla, April 2019
Book : Peer to Peer : The Commons Manifesto

London, University of Westminster Press

Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis, Alex Pazaitis, March 2019
Book : Re-enchanting the World. Feminism and the politics of the Commons

Kairos publishing

Silvia Federici, 2019
The History And Evolution Of The Commons

Michel Bauwens, June 2018
Chapter 24 - FOOD AS COMMONS :Towards a new relationship between the public, the civic and the private

in ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF FOOD AS A COMMONS: (pp. 373-396)

Olivier De Schutter, Ugo Mattei, Jose Luis Vivero Pol, Tomaso Ferrando, 2018
Providing public goods and commons. Towards coproduction and new forms of governance for a revival of public action

CIRIEC Studies Series – No. 1

AA.VV., 2018

CIRIEC
A Commons Transition Plan for the City of Ghent

Michel Bauwens, Yurek Onzia, September 2017
Understanding Cooperative Finance as a new common

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, vol.88, pp.155-177

Anaïs Périlleux, Marthe Nyssens, January 2017

CIRIEC
Value in the Commons Economy: Developments in Open and Contributory Value Accounting

Co-published by Heinrich-Böll-Foundation & P2P Foundation Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Niaros, January 2017
The food commons in Europe: Relevance, challenges and proposals to support them

Document presented and discussed during the first meeting of the European Commons Assembly, 15-17 November 2016, Brussels

Jose Luis Vivero Pol, November 2016
“Territories of Commons” in Europe: pivotal for food production, nature stewardship, heritage maintenance and climate mitigation

Extended document presented and discussed during the first meeting of the European Commons Assembly, 15-17 November 2016, Brussels

Jose Luis Vivero Pol, November 2016
Unifying commons-based projects in a self-organised solidarity economy

Commons Institute Christian Siefkes, Johannes Euler, Gunter Kramp, Nikolas Kichler, November 2016
Building a Cooperative Solidarity Commonwealth

Jessica Gordon-Nembhard,, April 2016
Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm

David Bollier, April 2016
Democratic Money and Capital for the Commons. Strategies for Transforming Neoliberal Finance Through Commons-Based Alternatives.

David Bollier, Patrick Conaty, January 2016
Transition towards a food commons regime: re-commoning food to crowd-feed the world

Jose Luis Vivero Pol, September 2015
Public Policy for a Social Economy

Journal of peer Production, issue #7

John Restakis, July 2015
Redefining and combating poverty Human rights, democracy and common goods in today’s Europe

Trends in social cohesion, No. 25 Council of Europe Publishing

AA.VV., 2015
No commons without a community

Community Dev J (2014) 49 (suppl 1): i106-i117 :Commons Sense New thinking about an old idea

Maria Mies, 201401/
Regulation on collaboration between citizens and the city for the care and a regeneration of urban commons

City of Bologna, Italy

City of Bologna, December 2014
The social commons: reconciling social protection and the universal basic income

XIV JORNADAS DE ECONOMÍA CRÍTICA. Perspectivas económicas alternativas Valladolid, 4 y 5 de septiembre de 2014

Francine Mestrum, September 2014
Commons against and beyond capitalism

Community Development Journal, 49(SI), pp. i92-i105

George Caffentzis, Silvia Federici, January 2014
eBook: Sharing Revolution: The essential economics of the commons

Jessica Conrad, 2014
Food as a Commons: Reframing the Narrative of the Food System

Jose Luis Vivero Pol, April 2013
The Possibility of a Pluralist Commonwealth and a Community-Sustaining Economy

the good society, vol. 22, no. 1, 2013

Gar Alperovitz, Steve Dubb, 2013
Gardening is about people! Case studies about urban gardening in Brussels between commons and degrowth [working paper]

OSSERVATORIO CORES - WORKING PAPER SERIES 3 : 2013

Elisabetta CANGELOSI,, 2013
Economic democracy: A path for the future?

Futures Volume 44, Issue 6, August 2012, Pages 562–570

Nadia Johanisova, Stephan Wolf, August 2012
Proposals for a Fair and Democratic Architecture of Power

contribution to the Peoples’ Summit, Rio+20, June 2012

June 2012

FnGM
Blueprint for P2P Society: The Partner State & Ethical Economy

Michel Bauwens, April 2012
The commons: (Co)managing commonly owned resources

Proceedings of the symposium of 9 March 2012 in Brussels, Belgium

Ghislain ERREMBAULT, March 2012
The Best of Three Worlds. Home Ownership combines housing affordability with equity and fairness.

From book The Resilience Imperative – Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy, by Mike Lewis and Pat Conaty

Michael Lewis, Patrick Conaty, 2012
Affordability Locked In. Community land trusts – good news for households, communities, & taxpayers

From book The Resilience Imperative – Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy, by Mike Lewis and Pat Conaty

Michael Lewis, Patrick Conaty, 2012
Agroecologically efficient agricultural systems for smallholder farmers: contributions to food sovereignty

gronomy for Sustainable Development Official journal of the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) Springer

Miguel A. Altieri, Fernando R. Funes-Monzote, Paulo Petersen, November 2011
From ‘Common Goods’ to the ‘Common Good of Humanity’

Rosa Luxembourg Foundation, Brussels

François Houtart, November 2011
Solidarity-based and co-operative economy and ethical business. Trends, Innovations and Experiences in Europe

Sonia Buglione, Rainer Schlüter, November 2010
The Commons- Prosperity by Sharing

Silke Helfrich, Rainer Kuhlen, Wolfgang Sachs, Christian Siefkes, December 2009

Heinrich Böll Foundation
Global Resource Management. Conflict Potential and Characteristics of a Global Governance Regime

The present Policy Paper is on the issue of global resource management and key options for action.

Raimund Bleischwitz, Stefan Bringezu, December 2007
The Water Court of the Vega de Valencia

2004
Limits to property.The failure of restrictive property regimes in the modern world

Andrew Simms, Jo Drury, Kim Trathen, September 2003

NEF

3 public contributions

The International Commons Conference, Berlin, Germany, Nov 1, 2010

An Interpretive Summary by David Bollier

David Bollier, November 2010

Heinrich Böll Foundation
From Common Wealth to Common Property

February 2006 issue of Vermont Commons, USA.

Peter Barnes, 2006

NEI
Salmon Economics (and other lessons)

Twenty-Third Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures October 2003, Stockbridge, MA

Andrew Kimbrell, October 2003

NEI

12 articles

Action Against Wildfires: Empowering Communities

Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, February 2024

Georgia Bekridaki, February 2024

RIPESS Europe, Dock Social Solidarity Zone
Transformative economies: Towards the construction of a new world

Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, October 2023

By Yiteg team, October 2023

RIPESS Europe
Mondeggi 2026: re-imagining the farm as a common of the future

Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, January 2023

Jason Nardi, January 2023

Solidarius Italia, RIPESS Europe
Commons and Solidarity Economy: Italian networks create new synergies

Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - February 2021

Virginia Meo, February 2021

RIPESS Europe, RIES
The project of La Coop des Communs

Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - February 2021

Nicole Alix, February 2021

RIPESS Europe
The RIUESS Meeting on Commons (2016)

Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - February 2021

Carmen Parra Rodríguez, February 2021

RIPESS Europe, RIUESS
Commonspoly: the counter-Monopoly game

Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - February 2021

February 2021

RIPESS Europe
Gar Alperovitz about Community Ownership, basis 6 for Synthecracy

Article of The Connectivist, June 14, 2020

June 2020
Corona and the Commons

Michel Bauwens, April 2020
Solidarity Economy and the Commons in Central and Eastern Europe

NL Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières, 21 juin 2019

Agnes Gagyi, June 2019
What are ‘the commons’ in the 21st century? Interview with Pat Conaty

Article of lowimpact.org

February 2019
What is municipalism and why is it gaining presence in Spain?

Article from UnitedExplanations, 16/01/2016

January 2016

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