Our common wealth : the hidden economy that makes everything else work /
"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 th...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
San Francisco, CA :
Berrett-Koehler Publishers,
[2013]
|
| Series: | BK currents book.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Bill McKibben
- Introduction / Peter Barnes
- Theory : Our hidden wealth ; How tragic is the commons? ; A new commons story ; A parallel economy ; Stop the invasions! ; The myopia of money ; Human nature and the commons ; Common property ; Takers and givers ; The community of goods ; Conservative commoners, once
- Practice : Accounting for common wealth ; Tollbooths of the mind ; Subsistence from the commons ; Build it and they will sit ; Sidewalks of the Information Age ; Reallocating time ; Time banking ; Who owns the beach? ; From alleys to commons ; New institutions needed ; Seeds of a commons movement
- Afterword / David Bollier.
