marc garrett
2014-09-24 11:15:33 UTC
Kostakis & Bauwens: Network Society and Future Scenarios for a
Collaborative Economy
Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens
The aim of this book is not to provide yet another critique of
capitalism but rather to contribute to the ongoing dialogue for
post-capitalist construction, and to discuss how another world could be
possible. It builds on the idea that peer-to-peer infrastructures are
gradually becoming the general conditions of work, economy, and society,
considering peer production as a social advancement within capitalism
but with various post-capitalistic aspects in need of protection,
enforcement, stimulation and connection with progressive social
movements. Using a four-scenario approach, the authors seek to simplify
possible outcomes and to explore relevant trajectories of the current
techno-economic paradigm within and beyond capitalism. They postulate
that the mature peer production communities pose a sustainable
alternative to capital accumulation, that of the circulation of the
Commons. They make some tentative transition proposals towards a
Commons-based economy and society for the state, the market and the
civic domain.
http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/network-society-and-future-scenarios-for-a-collaborative-economy-vasilis-kostakis/?k=9781137415066
Collaborative Economy
Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens
The aim of this book is not to provide yet another critique of
capitalism but rather to contribute to the ongoing dialogue for
post-capitalist construction, and to discuss how another world could be
possible. It builds on the idea that peer-to-peer infrastructures are
gradually becoming the general conditions of work, economy, and society,
considering peer production as a social advancement within capitalism
but with various post-capitalistic aspects in need of protection,
enforcement, stimulation and connection with progressive social
movements. Using a four-scenario approach, the authors seek to simplify
possible outcomes and to explore relevant trajectories of the current
techno-economic paradigm within and beyond capitalism. They postulate
that the mature peer production communities pose a sustainable
alternative to capital accumulation, that of the circulation of the
Commons. They make some tentative transition proposals towards a
Commons-based economy and society for the state, the market and the
civic domain.
http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/network-society-and-future-scenarios-for-a-collaborative-economy-vasilis-kostakis/?k=9781137415066