The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving comm…
The history of the commons - jointly owned land or other resources such as fisheries or forests set aside for public use - provides a useful context for current debates over sustainability and how we can act as 'good ancestors.' In this book, Derek Wall considers the commons fro…
"Red Round Globe Hot Burning tells the story of an Irish revolutionary, Edward Despard, and his wife, Catherine, an Afro-American abolitionist, in their efforts on both sides of the Atlantic to maintain the commons against attempts to enclose and privatize its land and resources…
"Free, Fair, and Alive is a penetrating cultural critique, table-pounding political treatise, and practical playbook for "commoning" -- free, self-organizing systems ranging from alternative currencies to open-source everything. It presents a bold and compelling alternative to t…
