David Bollier

David Bollier is an author, activist, blogger and consultant who has spent the past ten years exploring the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture. He has pursued this work in collaboration with a variety of international and domestic partners. He speaks widely about the commons, and recently co-founded a new international organization, Commons Strategies, dedicated to developing and promoting commons-based public policies and initiatives. In 2010, Bollier taught a course on the topic as the Croxton Lecturer at Amherst College.

blog: www.bollier.org.

5 publications

• Die Welt der Commons. Muster gemeinsamen Handelns.

  Silke Helfrich, David Bollier und die Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Bielefeld, Deutschland, October 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

• La Renaissance des communs. Pour une société de coopération et de partage.

  David Bollier, Editions Charles Léopold Meyer, ECLM, Paris, France, 2014

• The wealth of the Commons. A world beyond Market & State

  Edited by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich, Levellers Press, United States, December 2012

3 Videos

• The Insurgent Power of the Commons in the War Against the Imagination

  Prairie Festival 2018 -The Land Institute

  September 2018

• Interview of David Bollier and Benjamin Coriat on the commons

  Frédéric Sultan, Sylvia FREDRIKSSON, June 2015

• Film: This Land is our land

  David Bollier, December 2010

4 Analyses/working papers/articles

• Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm

  David Bollier, April 2016

• Faire en commun : un paradigme social de transformation

  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

• TOWARD AN OPEN CO-OPERATIVISM. A New Social Economy Based on Open Platforms, Co-operative Models and the Commons.

  A Report on a Commons Strategies Group Workshop Berlin, Germany August 27-28, 2014

  Patrick Conaty, David Bollier, August 2014

One public contribution

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

  An Interpretive Summary by David Bollier

  David Bollier, November 2010

  Heinrich Böll Foundation