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Our common wealth : the hidden economy that makes everything else work / Jonathan Rowe ; edited by Peter Barnes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rowe, Jonathan.
- Series:
- BK Currents
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commons.
- Cooperation.
- Economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (145 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A huge part of our economy is invisible, invaluable, and under siege. ""The commons"" is a term that denotes everything we share as opposed to own privately. Some parts of the commons are gifts of nature: the air and oceans, the web of species, wilderness, and watersheds. Others are the product of human creativity and endeavor: sidewalks and public squares, the Internet, our languages, cultures, technologies, and infrastructure. In graceful and down-to-earth prose, Jonathan Rowe illuminates the scale and value of the commons, its symbiotic relationship with the rest of the economy, its importa
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; THEORY; 1 Our Hidden Wealth; 2 How Tragic Is the Commons?; 3 A New Commons Story; 4 A Parallel Economy; 5 Stop the Invasions!; 6 The Myopia of Money; 7 Human Nature and the Commons; 8 Common Property; 9 Takers and Givers; 10 The Community of Goods; 11 Conservative Commoners, Once; PRACTICE; 12 Accounting for Common Wealth; 13 Tollbooths of the Mind; 14 Subsistence from the Commons; 15 Build It and They Will Sit; 16 Sidewalks of the Information Age; 17 Reallocating Time; 18 Time Banking; 19 Who Owns the Beach?; 20 From Alleys to Commons
- 21 New Institutions Needed22 Seeds of a Commons Movement; Afterword; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; About the Author; About the Editor; About On The Commons; About West Marin Commons
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed April 11, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9781609948351
- 1609948351
- 9781299282803
- 1299282806
- 9781609948344
- 1609948343
- OCLC:
- 830323704
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