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The Commons is a central concept relating to very many other topics in this Wiki.
Michel Bauwens states the P2P position thus: "A commons is
- shared resources (i.e. there is something objective about it)
- maintained or co-produced by a community or group of stakeholders (hence: a subjective activity and choice, 'there is no commons without commoning') and
- it is managed according to the rules and values of that community ('autonormativity'), which makes it also an alternative governance and property regime."
(from the Commons page on this Wiki)
The Wikipedia entry gives the origin of the term thus: "the Roman legal category res communis, applied to things common to all to be used and enjoyed by everyone, as opposed to res publica, applied to public property managed by the government."
Key Ideas
- "The Tragedy of the Commons" is a famous paper by Garrett Hardin, which was sometimes taken as dismissing the feasibility of commons in general. But as the author later admitted, (e.g. [1]) the "tragedy" properly relates to "unmanaged" commons, not to all commons.
- Elinor Ostrom is widely cited and quoted as a key author in the field. She researched and documented several examples of commons that are effectively managed.
- See our page on Enclosure to understand the meaning and significance of enclosure in opposing the Commons.
- Commons-Based Peer Production points to a strategy for economic activity based on the commons. The P2P Foundation specifically aims to create a commons-centric society. See the article: Michel Bauwens' Blueprint for P2P Society
Useful Learning Resources
Introductory
- Our page on Commons
- Quotes on the Commons
Deeper Study
- Commons Transition and P2P: A Primer (2017) by Michel Bauwens et al. starts with some helpful basic explanation, and continues to around 50 pages of explaining related concepts including the politics of the commons, and Commons Transition.
- Introduction to the P2P Foundation Wiki Material about the Commons compiled by Michel Bauwens (ex category page)
Related Categories
for subcategories, see below
- Category: Collaborative Economy – in our view, a collaborative economy is based around the commons
- And Category: Peerproduction is a key concept in the collaborative economy
Subcategories
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 10 total.
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Pages in category "Commons"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,945 total.
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- David Bollier on the Viral Spiral
- David Bollier on Thinking Like a Commoner
- David Bolllier on Thinking Like a Commoner
- David Graeber on Why the Gift Economy and the Commons Are Always Already Present
- David Ronfeldt on the Assurance Commons
- David Ronfeldt on the Chamber of the Commons
- De Meent
- Debal Deb on the Indian Rice Seed Commons Project Vrihi
- Debategraph Commons Memes Map
- Deccan Development Society
- Declaration for a Commons Collaborative Economy
- Decommodify the Law
- Defending the Global Commons
- Defending, Reclaiming and Reinventing the Commons
- Defining Infrastructure and Commons Management
- Defining the Commons
- Democracy Commons Project
- Denis Neumüller
- Denis Postle on the Psychological Commons
- Denis Postle on the PsyCommons as Ordinary Wisdom and Shared Power
- Department of the Commons - Naples
- Designing the Microbial Research Commons
- Detroit People's Water Board
- Developing the Meta Services for the Eco-Social Economy
- Development Trust Association (UK)
- Different Categories of Goods and Services and their Systems of Governance
- Differential Commoning
- Differential Commoning in a Manufactured Housing Cooperative
- Digital Commoning Techniques
- Digital Commons
- Digital Commons as a Political Project
- Digital Commons as an Escape from Capital
- Digital Commons as Core Ecosystem Strategy
- Digital Commons as Drivers of Sovereignty
- Digital Commons as Illusion
- Digital Commons in Microbiology
- Digital Commons Research Group
- Digital Design Commons
- Digital Public Assets
- Digital Public Goods
- Digital Public Goods Alliance
- Digital-Coin Rule for a Free Society
- Dimi Dimotrov
- Dimitris Koukoulakis
- Direct Democratic Ownership and Management of Natural Resources
- Directory of French Doctoral Commons Researchers - 2017
- Dirk Philipsen on Reclaiming the Commons
- Disposable Time as a Common-Pool Resource
- Dispossession in Australia
- Dissent and the Commons
- Distributed Commons-based Production
- Distributed Cooperative Organizations
- Documentary on the Water Struggles Around Greece
- Dougald Hine on Friendship as a Commons
- Drew Gerkey on Emerging Commons Institutions in Northeast Siberia
- Dutch Commons
- Dynamics of Modern Enclosure and Governing the Commons
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- Earth Commons Rising
- Earth Sharing
- Earthsharing
- Eben Moglen on Free and Open Software as New Paradigm for a Intellectual Commons
- Eben Moglen on the Commons As An Actor in Transforming Global Political Economy
- Eben Moglen on the Commons as an Actor in Transforming the Global Political Economy
- ECC2013
- Eco-Digital Commons
- Eco-Patent Commons
- Ecology and Commons Lab
- Ecommony
- Economic Case For Securing Indigenous Land Rights in the Amazon
- Economic Theory of Infrastructure and Commons Management
- Economics and Persistence of English Common Fields
- Economics and the Commons Conference
- Economics of Abundance
- Economy of Crisis Capitalism and Ecology of the Commons
- Ecosystem Commons
- Education and the Concept of Commons
- Education as a Commons
- Education Commons
- Educational Commons
- Egalitarian Commonwealth
- Eight Design Principles for Common Pool Resource Systems
- Eight Points of Reference for Commoning
- El Buen Vivir and the Commons
- Eleni Katrini
- Elinor and Vincent Ostrom International Studies of Choice, Cooperation, Governance
- Elinor Ostrom
- Elinor Ostrom on Going Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons
- Elinor Ostrom on the Commons and Copyright
- Elinor Ostrom’s Eight Commons Governance Design Principles
- Elisabetta Cangelosi
- Emancipatory Commoning
- Embassy of the Commons - Poland
- Embroidered Digital Commons
- Emer O'Siochru on Reclaiming the Commons
- Emergence of a Global Commons Movement, Year Zero
- Emergence of Commons and Guilds as Silent Revolution
- Emergency Commons for Corona Response and Social Distancing Adaptation
- Emerging Theory and Practice of the Solidarity Economy
- Emin Eminagić
- Emmanuel Macron and the Commons
- Employment as a Common Pool Resource
- Employment Commons
- Enabling a Global Climate Commons Pathway - 2013
- Enacting the Commons
- Enclosure
- Enclosure and Dispossession of the Agrarian Commons in Bolivia, Ethiopia, and Mexico
- Enclosure and the Information Commons
- Enclosure of Information as Public Good under a Regime of Artificial Scarcity
- Enclosure Without and Within the Information Commons
- Enclosures of Essential Medicines
- Enclosures of the England Commons
- Energy as a Common
- Energy as a Common Good
- Energy as a Commons
- Energy Commons
- Energy Commons as a Governance Framework for Climate Stability and Energy Security
- Energy Commons as the Missing Link Between Energy Transition and Climate Justice
- Energy from the Perspective of the Commons
- Energy is a Commons
- Engaging Critically with the Reality and Concept of Civil Society
- Enric Senabre Hidalgo
- Enrico Grazzini
- Entrepreneur Commons
- Entrepreneurial Common
- Entrepreneurs for the Commons Co-Design Laboratory
- Environment as a Commons
- Environment as Our Common Heritage
- Environment for Development Commons Research Themes
- Environmental Commons
- Environmental Justice and the Commons
- Epistemic Commons
- Epistemic Regards and Plurality of Schools on Food as a Commons
- Equitable Sharing
- Equity and the Commons
- Erling Berge
- Establishing a Communication Commons
- Esther Mwangi
- ETC Group
- EU Intergroup on the Commons
- Europe Commons
- Europe Commons Deep Dive
- European Charter of the Commons Campaign
- European Commons Assembly
- European Commons Experts
- European Forum on Income, Common Goods and Democracy
- European Parliament Common Goods Intergroup
- European Politics Need the Commons, but the Commons Need Politics
- Eva Ressel
- Events on Commons Economics
- Everyday Practices of Commoning and the Production of Urban Space in Dublin
- Everyday Water Politics and the Struggle for Alternatives in Cochabamba, Bolivia
- Evolutionary Theory of Commons Management
- Exploring the Links between Normative Valuations and Agency in the Food Commons Transition
- Exploring the Potential of Cultural Commoning
- Exploring the Potentials of Blockchain for Commons Governance
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- Failed Metaphysics Behind Private Property
- Favoriser la contribution
- Federation of Housing Commons
- Federico Tomasone
- Feed Bristol
- Felix Fritsch on the Origins of the Crypto Commons
- Felix Stalder on Public vs Commons Resources
- Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
- Field Guide to the Commons
- Fifth Magisterium of the Commons
- Films and Videos about the Commons
- Final Report on the Economics and the Commons Conference
- Finance as a Commons
- Finance Commons
- Financial Commons
- Financial Enclosure of the Commons
- Fish as Commons
- Fish Trap Commons - Thailand
- Five Basic Design Principles for the Urban Commons
- Five Commons Approach
- FLOSS as Commons
- FLOSS Commons
- Flow
- Flower Commons
- Folk Commons
- Food and Water Watch
- Food as a Commons
- Food as a New Old Commons
- Food as Common and Community
- Food as Commons
- Food as Commons or Commodity
- Food Commons
- Food Commons 2.0
- Food Commons for All on Haultain Boulevard
- Food Commons Fresno
- Food Commons Institutions
- Food Commons Project
- Food Commons Vision
- Food from Commodity to Commons
- Food is a Public Good
- For-Benefit Institutions
- Forest Commons
- Forest Policy and Innovation Database
- Forests Act in India
- Fork the Commons