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showcase topics
- Appropedia
- BerkShares
- Business Alliance for a Local Living Economy
- Center for a New American Dream
- Community-Wealth.org
- Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University
- Global Village Network
- Institute for Local Self-Reliance
- New Economics Foundation
- Slow Money Institute
- United for a Fair Economy
- Capitalism, the Commons and Divine Right report by Peter Barnes
- Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons by Peter Barnes (Berrett-Koehler, 2006)
- Commodity and Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776-1970 by Gregory S. Alexander (University of Chicago Press, 1997)
- Contested Commodities: The Trouble with Trade in Sex, Children, Body Parts and Other Things by Margaret Jane Radin (Harvard University Press, 1996)
- Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets by Robert Kuttner (Knopf, 1997)
- The Gift: The Erotic Life of Property by Lewis Hyde (Vintage, 1979)
- The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi (1944; Beacon Press, 1957)
- The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownershp Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation and Costs Lives by Michael Heller (Perseus, 2008)
- Hooked! Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire and the Urge to Consume Edited by Stephanie Kaza (Shambhala, 2005)
- It’s All for Sale: The Control of Global Resources by James Ridgeway (Duke University Press, 2004)
- The People’s Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth Century America by William J. Novak (University of North Carolina Press, 1996)
- Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth by David Bollier (Routledge, 2002)
Economy and Markets

5 Feb 2010 / Silke Helfrich
"One World in which Many Worlds Fit."
Silke Helfrich of Germany speaks at the World Social Forum. read more

29 Jan 2010 / shareable.net
10 Signs Pointing Us Toward a Commons-based Society
Streets for people, pirate legislators, health care as a commons & more read more
4 Jan 2010 / David Bollier
Bolivia Stands Up for Common Wealth: Evo Morales's bold bet against privatization pays off.
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15 Dec 2009 / Richard C. Cook
Re-imagining Money: A review of Thomas Greco's "The End of Money and the Future of Civilization" Read more...
9 Dec 2009 / Jay Walljasper
Nobel Prize is a Milestone for the Commons Movement: Elinor Ostrom’s Award Disarms Those Who Say
a Commons-based Society is Impossible. Read more...
8 Dec 2009 / David Bollier
Alain Lipietz's Wisdom: French political thinker offers deep insights into commons and politics, markets and history.
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4 Dec 2009 / David Bollier
A New Multilateralism of the Global Commons: James Quilligan's bold vision for re-inventing nation-states and international relations through... Read more...
3 Dec 2009 / David Bollier
The Story of Cap & Trade: Global warming is such an alarming subject -- and so complicated as a political and policy issue... Read more...
21 Nov 2009 / David Bollier
“The Gleaners and I”: Filmmaker Agnès Varda explores the practice of gleaning in modern-day France. Read more...
