Think Like a Commoner, David Bollier
Think Like a Commoner, David Bollier
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Think Like a Commoner
A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons

Author: David Bollier

Narrator: David Skulski

Unabridged: 6 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2016


Synopsis

The Commons is among the most important and hopeful concepts of our time, and once you’ve read this book you’ll understand why!
—Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy“
In our age of predatory markets and make-believe democracy, our troubled political institutions have lost sight of real people and practical realities. But if you look to the edges, ordinary people are reinventing governance and provisioning on their own terms. The commons is arising as a serious, practical alternative to the corrupt Market/State.
The beauty of commons is that we can build them ourselves, right now. But the bigger challenge is, Can we learn to see the commons and, more importantly, to think like a commoner?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sara

Are the commons big, or just vanishing? [Through my ratings, reviews and edits I'm providing intellectual property and labor to Amazon.com Inc., listed on Nasdaq, which fully owns Goodreads.com and in 2013 posted revenues for $74 billion and $274 million profits. Intellectual property and labor re......more

Goodreads review by Russell

David Bollier's brief argument on behalf of the importance of defending those places and processes in our lives which could be labeled "commons"--parks and pathways, obviously, but also all sorts of things from open-source software to natural aquifers to regular assemblies on public squares--is wond......more

Goodreads review by Kent

The idea I liked the most in this book was a new triumvirate requiring checks and balances -- the corporate, the government and the commons. A combination of the commons with the government is the proper check against corporate greed, corruption and even simply the corporate mandate for profit. Simp......more