TheCommons--Spaces-Thoughts-Economics

it means not only a radically different structure of the economy, but a change in who runs American industry. And this is what the current political order is fighting to the death.

More political than commons related, but connected to the question of energy and resource usage and power.

This paper focuses on a quite different situation: the role of common forests in an industrialized country. The Swedish common forests have survived for more than one hundred years; no deforestation has been observed and the total amount of biomass is increasing.

The Political Economy of Institutional Change: A Historical Perspective on Land Tenure in Western Europe

The Silent Revolution: The Emergence of Commons, Guilds and Other Forms of Corporate Collective Action in Western Europe from the Late Middle Ages Onwards

a socialist take on enclosure

Agitating for innovation through open licensing and good technology.

The public domain is not contractually constructed. It just is. It cannot be made more free, only less free. And if we start a culture of licensing and enclosing the public domain (stuff that is actually already free, like the human genome) in the name of "freedom" we're playing a dangerous game.

pointer to book review at NYT