Marcus Brancaglione. Lessons from the Practice of Basic Income: A Compendium of Writings and Data. Edited by Bruna Augusto. Translated by Monica Puntel, Leonardo Puntel, Carolina Fisher (São Paulo, 2016). This is a collection of writings by Marcus Brancaglione. Brancaglione is President of ReCivitas (Institute for the Revitalization of Citizenship); Bruna Augusto, who edited the… Continue reading
From author Timothy Rayner: “The thought experiment I’d like to propose involves bringing together Unger’s argument concerning how progressives should attempt to revivify democracy with the empirical observation that collaborative experimentation is increasingly shaping the zeitgeist. I suspect that Unger is addressing the wrong community in his call to arms. Perhaps, instead of calling on progressives… Continue reading
Full title – The Safe Operating Space Treaty: A New Approach to Managing Our Use of the Earth System Editor(s): Paulo Magalhães, Will Steffen, Klaus Bosselmann, Alexandra Aragão, Viriato Soromenho-Marques Book description from the publisher’s site: It is clear that international law is not yet equipped to handle the “ecological goods and services” that exist… Continue reading
A PhD thesis on reciprocal technologies by Eugenio Tisselli. Plymouth University, 2016. Full title: “Reciprocal Technologies: Enabling the Reciprocal Exchange of Voice in Small-Scale Farming Communities through the Transformation of Information and Communications Technologies”. Summary Industrial agricultural systems have compromised local, regional, and even planetary ecosystems, and have largely denied the voices and collaborative practices… Continue reading
This post by Jordan Greenhall originally appeared on Medium.com The following are a series of assertions around our present geo-political circumstances and hypotheses about our most effective actions. There is a global institutional order, largely initiated as the aftermath of WWII and growing organically through to the fall of the Eastern Bloc, at which point… Continue reading
An article on Generative Justice written by Ron Eglash. Originally published at Revista Teknokultura. Abstract Marx proposed that capitalism’s destructive force is caused, at root, by the alienation of labor value from its generators. Environmentalists have added the concept of unalienated ecological value, and rights activists added the unalienated expressive value of free speech, sexuality,… Continue reading
This post by Danah Boyd was originally published on Medium.com Yesterday*, Steve Bannon clearly articulated what many people have felt and known for quite some time when he told journalists, “You’re the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party… The media’s the opposition party.” This builds on earlier remarks by Trump, who said, “I have a… Continue reading
After the sudden passing of Jean Lievens our Dutch blog was left without it’s caretaker. A few weeks ago we published an In Memoriam for Jean and now the Dutch blog is up and running again after some necessary updates. For all Dutch speaking inhabitants of this world we now have our P2P platform again… Continue reading
This video was produced by the Institute of New Economic Thinking. Good incentives are no substitute for good citizens. Human beings, notes Sam Bowles, a Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, are complex, psychological beings given to all sorts of motivations well beyond naked self-interest. That might be news to the economics profession, which… Continue reading
The following is an edited version of my keynote talk, delivered by video to the Craft Reveals conference at the Chiang Mai Vocational School in December 2016. The conference was hosted (and my talk commissioned) by the British Council Thailand. Around the world, a new economy is being shaped by a “leave things better” story about… Continue reading
By Alberto Acosta. Originally published on degrowth.de Rethinking the World from the Perspective of Buen Vivir 1. What is the key idea of Buen Vivir? We will never create a perfect world. And we should be aware of that. Carlos Taibo, 2015 This article outlines the scope and limits of Buen Vivir, which can be… Continue reading
An article by Marc Garrett, originally published at Furtherfield: “As curator of the exhibition Monsters of the machine: Frankenstein in the 21st Century, I thought it necessary to interview the artists in the exhibition, while it is shown in the magnificent gallery space at Laboral, in Spain, until August 31st 2017. I wanted to get… Continue reading
The victory of Trump signifies the end of an era of neoliberal globalization in which the Western working and middle classes accepted the stagnation and decline due to the inevitable de-industrialization that was a unavoidable result of the neoliberal strategy. The tragedy, of course, is that the reaction takes the shape of a return to… Continue reading
Anna Cash: With a broader understanding of the solidarity economy in Brazil in mind, testimonials from participating entrepreneurs themselves show the real advantages of this kind of work, from circumventing market exclusion to creating new kinds of spaces where women are reimagining the divide between domestic and productive spheres. There are upwards of 300 solidarity… Continue reading
The P2P Foundation is serializing videos on the Solidarity Economy produced by the SUSY (Sustainable and Solidarity Economy) Project. See all videos here. In the North East of England, the College team visited Shared Interest, a social enterprise based in Newcastle that uses the investments of individuals to make loans to Fairtrade producers around the… Continue reading
A commons is a way to express a very old idea—that some forms of wealth are foundational to the wellbeing of life and belong to all of us; and that these community resources must be actively protected and managed for the good of all. Currently there is no automatic mechanism within the market to protect,… Continue reading