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Todd Suomela

Ugo Mattei on the Commons, Market and State | David Bollier - 0 views

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    "The real problem is that the State and Market are locked in a symbiotic alliance to the detriment of the commons. This unholy alliance so tenacious because it is embedded in our very phenomenological understanding of life, writes Mattei. We perceive the world as a mechanistic system in which subject and object are separate and distinct, and we supposedly have individual autonomy to do what we wish to act upon the world. As subjects, we tend to pracel out and commodify the world into units that are isolated from the larger whole; thus we see humanity as separate from Nature and the various elements of it (wetlands, atmosphere, genes) as isolated objects. "
Todd Suomela

OnTheCommons.org » Private Property and the Power of Magical Thinking - 0 views

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    All the talk about rights-based fishing and IFQs is a red herring that throws all of us off the track of what is important. IFQs do not work because they are rights, or because they are property rights…. IFQs work because they involve an assigned catch, as opposed to having catch be determined competitively. (Vermont Law Review, Spring 2004, p. 659) It is apparently irresistible for people, even trained scientists, to misunderstand ITQs as a triumph of the market and privatization. ITQs play into the grand narrative that private property rights promote good stewardship of a resource. Remember the so-called "tragedy of the commons" story? That parable holds that if you give people private property rights in the commons - if only your privatize the collective resource! - people won't over-exploit it. "Tragedy" can be averted. The mythology insists that the commons can be responsibly managed only if it is duly privatized.
Todd Suomela

OnTheCommons.org » Risk, Inequality and the Economics of Disaster - 0 views

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    Marcellus Andrews explains how climate change will force us to confront the inequalities that market fundamentalism produces.
Todd Suomela

OnTheCommons.org » More than just jobs, we need meaningful work. - 0 views

  • We are today surrounded by an abundance of productivity that the market does not recognize or value. In this consumer society, we think about “work” as what people do to pay for goods and services in the marketplace. If our work doesn’t earn money, it’s not counted as an economic asset. The power of the market is so strong that we often don’t recognize or value work that is essential to society’s future. The unpaid contributions of homemaking, parenting, volunteering, care giving and citizenship are not valued or nor appreciated. Americans (and many others in the modern world) have internalized a limited definition of work defined exclusively as employment in the market economy. As a result, we have discarded the real and potential productivity of young people and retirees—and everyone else who is outside of the paid workforce.
Todd Suomela

Doc Searls Weblog · Edging toward the fully licensed world - 0 views

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    "By losing the free and open Internet, and free and open devices to interact with it - and even such ordinary things as physical books and music media - we reduce the full scope of both markets and civilization. But that's hard to see when the walled gardens are so rich with short-term benefits."
Todd Suomela

OnTheCommons.org » Sharing the Work, Spreading the Wealth - 0 views

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    essay by Janet Hively To create a commons-based society, people need more than exposure to new ideas. They need tangible ways of practicing and living out these bright possibilities. Old habits about how we organize and pay for work maintain the sharp divisions between rich and poor and tie us to the consumer values of the market-based society. At this time when unemployment due to layoffs is growing, we should try out some new ways to share the work and spread the wealth.
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Op-Ed Columnist - An Economy of Faith and Trust - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    David Brooks, in an op / ed piece to the New York times, discovers that participation in the market does not magically transform human beings into the rational beings that one could easily see that they aren't by ... oh, say, talking to them.
Todd Suomela

OnTheCommons.org - The commons as a new sector of value-creation - 0 views

  • So my first point is the importance of recognizing the commons as a distinct sector for creating value. It can be difficult to recognize this reality because we don’t have an agreed-upon language or taxonomy for talking about the value-proposition of the commons. The phenomenon is still too novel. For many people, it is difficult to accept that value can exist without the sanction of money or private property rights—that value that is intangible and unquantifiable can actually matter. Cold, hard cash is nearly always seen as more valuable than something as amorphous and non-physical as an online community
  • I call these epochal changes in economic and cultural production The Great Value Shift. In the networked environment that is becoming pervasive, we are being forced to recognize that markets—or at least, traditional hierarchical institutions such as the corporation—do not have a monopoly on the ability to generate value.
  • If you can acknowledge this fact, then it follows that we should take affirmative steps to preserve the commons and the special types of value that it produces. Let me conclude by suggesting four general strategies.
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      1. protect integrity of commons 2. new models for understanding value 3. invent new hybrids 4. active government support of commns
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    Keynote by David Bollier at Economies of the Commons Conference, April 12, 2008, Amsterdam.
Todd Suomela

OnTheCommons.org - The economics of online commons - 0 views

  • The focus of many presentations was how to organize the production and distribution of new creative works in a world where free/cheap digital transmission is the norm. It turns out that many established institutions—if they are going to come to terms with the Internet—are going to have to seriously transform themselves in order to survive.
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      Key summary of the conference in Amsterdam.
  • If you want to see the future, one of the best places to look is the freeboot innovators of the underground. They are always the ones who tried out the new ideas that later ripen into market opportunities. Think how hip-hop emerged from record-scratchers in Brooklyn basements and how the hobbyists of the Homebrew Computer Club pioneered many of the early innovations in computing.
  • The idea of “culture without property” seems just too radical and counter-intuitive for some folks to get (or they get it only too well, because it jeopardizes their established business model). But this is not actually such a radical vision. There are already all sorts of profit-making enterprises that are building business models around open, non-proprietary platforms. IBM’s embrace of GNU Linux, the open-source operating system, is one of many prominent examples. So is Flickr, the photo-sharing website.
Sonny Cher

Activate Party Pills: The Natural Energy Booster - 1 views

Being a full time mom, wife and career woman is never an easy feat. But after juggling heaps of tasks, at the end of the day I always feel tired and exhausted. I do not have time anymore for myself...

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The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Adjunct Faculty, The Burros of Academia by Dr. Burton Fletcher - 0 views

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    Ah, all of this, and you get paid $1200-$1500 / semester, IF your class doesn't get cancelled, and I would know about the salary. I was about to become one of those adjuncts, teaching introductory probability and statistics, when I found that only three students at that college were willing to sign up for that class, listed in the schedule as being taught by the well known Prof.Staff. (He gets around a lot). I still remember walking down the street, wondering what happened, when passing a line of people hoping to get into a class that did seem to be of interest to students - "finding your animal spirit guide". No, I'm not making that up. A little about the "privileged" life that the backbreaking work they did in graduate school made possible, for so many, while the former frat boy executives who drank and cheated their way through school have so often ended up having to struggle by on six figure incomes, as they stare forlornly out their corner office windows. I'm not guessing about the frat boys. I've tutored and graded the papers of a number of these "achievers". A little more truth about life in the so-called land of opportunity, in the Postmodern Era.
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

The Invisible Adjunct - 0 views

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    The site has been allowed to expire, but can still be found in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The personal blog of one of academia's many "adjuncts", those who've responded to the stubborn refusal of many institutions to create full time teaching positions by stringing together part time teaching jobs. The author eventually left teaching.
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

VDARE.com: 10/10/04 - Economics: Science or Religion? - 0 views

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    A little reality for a chance. Blog post about outsourcing. No, it's not good press.
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