This text exposes the audacious attempts of companies to appropriate medical breakthroughs, public airwaves, outer space, state research, and even the DNA of plants and animals. It is an attempt to develop a new ethos of commonwealth in the face of a market ethic that knows no b…
"In Silent Theft, David Bollier argues that a great untold story of our time is the staggering privatization and abuse of our common wealth. Corporations are engaged in a relentless plunder of dozens of resources that we collectively own - publicly funded medical breakthroughs, …
This book analyses three key concepts, global public goods, global commons, and fundamental values, as tools geared towards the protection of the general interests of the international community. After providing an overview of these concepts, the book examines how international …
"This book presents an introduction to the planning and implementation methods for interplant resource integration. The analytic tools provided in the book can be used for the tasks of formulating mathematical programming model(s) to maximize the achievable overall saving and al…
"This book presents an introduction to the planning and implementation methods for interplant resource integration. The analytic tools provided in the book can be used for the tasks of formulating mathematical programming model(s) to maximize the achievable overall saving and al…
"This book presents an introduction to the planning and implementation methods for interplant resource integration. The analytic tools provided in the book can be used for the tasks of formulating mathematical programming model(s) to maximize the achievable overall saving and al…
"Infrastructures--tangible, intangible, and institutional public facilities, from bridges to health care--are a vital precondition for economic and societal wellbeing. There has been an increasing awareness that we cannot rely on market forces for infrastructure investment and m…
The complexities of financing, installing, implementing, and regulating public infrastructures, including empirical research, analytical models, and theoretical insights.
Infrastructures-tangible, intangible, and institutional public facilities, from bridges to health care-are a vital precondition for economic and societal wellbeing. There has been an increasing awareness that we cannot rely on market forces for infrastructure investment and main…
The complexities of financing, installing, implementing, and regulating public infrastructures, including empirical research, analytical models, and theoretical insights.
This is the first legal monograph analysing multilevel governance of global 'aggregate public goods' (PGs) from the perspective of democractic, republican and cosmopolitan constitutionalism by using historical, legal, political and economic methods. It explains the need for a 'n…
