From this piece:
"Political elites and their corporate brethren are running out of ideas
for how to reconcile the deep contradictions of 'democratic capitalism'
as it now exists. Even social democrats and liberals, the traditional
foes of free-market dogma, seem locked into an archaic worldview and set
of political strategies that makes their advocacy sound tinny. Their
familiar progress-narrative—that economic growth, augmented by
government interventions and redistribution, can in fact work and make
society more stable and fair—is no longer persuasive.
"Below, I argue that the commons paradigm offers a refreshing and
practical lens for re-imagining politics, governance and law. The
commons, briefly put, is about self-organized social systems for
managing shared wealth. Far from a 'tragedy,' the commons as
a system for mutualizing responsibilities and benefits is highly
generative. It can be seen in the successful self-management of forests,
farmland, and water, and in open source software communities,
open-access scholarly journals, and “cosmo-local” design and
manufacturing systems."
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