The wealth of the commons: a world beyond market and state

Introduction / David Bollier & Silke Helfrich. Part I: The commons as a new paradigm. My rocky road to the commons / Jacques Paysan

The economy of wastefulness: The biology of the commons / Andreas Weber

We are not born as egoists / Friederike Habermann

Resilience thinking / Rob Hopkins

Institutions and trust in commons: Dealing with social dilemmas / Martin Beckenkamp

The structural communality of the commons / Stefan Meretz

The logic of the commons and the market: A shorthand comparison of their core beliefs / Silke Helfrich

First thoughts for a phenomenology of the commons / Ugo Mattei

Feminism and the politics of the commons / Silvia Federici

Rethinking the social welfare state in light of the commons / Brigitte Kratzwald

Common goods don't simply exist

They are created / Silke Helfrich

The tragedy of the anticommons / Michael Heller

Why distinguish common goods from public goods? / James B. Quilligan

Subsistence: Perspective for a society based on commons / Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen

Technology and the commons / Josh Tenenberg

The commoning of patterns and the patterns of commoning / Franz Nahrada

The abundance of the commons, a conversation with Brian Davey, Roberto Verzola and Wolfgang Hoeschele

Part II: Capitalism, enclosure and resistance. Enclosures from the bottom up / Peter Linebaugh

The commons: A historical concept of property rights / Hartmut Zuckert

The global land grab: The new enclosures / Liz Alden Wily

Genetically engineered promises & farming realities / P.V. Satheesh

The coming financial enclosure of the common / Antonio Tricarico

Mining as a threat to the commons: The case of South America / César Padilla

Water as a commons: Only fundamental change can save us / Maude Barlow

Dam building: Who's "backward"

Subsistence cultures or modern "development"? / Vinod Raina

Belo Monte, or the destruction of the commons / Gerhard Dilger

Subtle but effective: Modern forms of enclosure / Hervé Le Crosnier

Good bye night sky / Jonathan Rowe

Crises, capitalism and cooperation: Does capital need a commons fix? / Massimo De Angelis

Hope from the margins / Gustavo Esteva

A new German raw materials strategy: A modern enclosure of the commons? / Lili Fuhr

Using "protected natural areas" to appropriate the commons / Ana de Ita

Intellectual property rights and free trade agreements: A never-ending story / Beatriz Busaniche

Global enclosures in the service of empire / David Bollier

Part III: commoning: A social innovation for our times. School of commoning / George Pór

Practicing commons in community gardens: Urban gardening as a corrective for homo economicus / Christa Muller

Mundraub.org: Sharing our common fruit / Katharina Frosch

Living in "The garden of life" / Margrit Kennedy and Declan Kennedy

Reclaiming the credit commons: Towards a butterfly society / Thomas H. Greco, Jr.

Shared space: A space shared is a space doubled / Sabine Lutz

Transition towns: Initiatives of transformation / Gerd Wessling

Learning from Minamata: Creating high-level well-being in local communities in Japan / Takayoshi Kusago

Share or die

A challenge for our times / Neal Gorenflo

The faxinal: A Brazilian experience of the commons and its relationship with the state / Mayra Lafoz Bertussi

Capable leadership, institutional skills and resource abundance behind flourishing coastal marine commons in Chile / Gloria L. Gallardo Fernández & Eva Friman

Community based forest and livelihood management in Nepal / Shrikrishna Upadhyay

Salt and trade at the Pink Lake: Community subsistence in Senegal / Papa Sow & Elina Marmer

El Buen Vivir and the commons, a conversation between Gustavo Soto Santiesteban and Silke Helfrich

Part IV: Knowledge commons for social change. The code is the seed of the software, an interview with Adriana Sánchez

The boom of commons-based peer production / Christian Siefkes

Copyright and fairy tales / Carolina Botero and Julio César Gaitán

Creative commons: Governing the intellectual commons from below / Mike Linksvayer

Freedom for users, not for software / Benjamin Mako Hill

Public administration needs free software / Federico Heinz

From blue collar to open commons region: How Linz, Austria, has benefited from committing to the commons / Thomas Gegenhuber, Naumi Haque and Stefan Pawel

Emancipating innovation enclosures: The global innovation commons / David E. Martin

Move commons: Labeling, opening and connecting social initiatives / Javier de la Cueva, Bastien Guerry, Samer Hassan, Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado

Peer-to-peer economy and new civilization centered around the sustenance of the commons / Michel Bauwens and Franco Iacomella

Knowledge is the water of the mind: How to structure rights in "immaterial commons" / Rainer Kuhlen

Part V: Envisioning a commons-based policy and production framework. Green governance: Ecological survival, human rights and the commons / David Bollier and Burns H. Weston

The common heritage of mankind: A bold doctrine kept within strict boundaries / Prue Taylor

Ideas for change: Making meaning out of economic and institutional diversity / Ryan T. Conway

Constructing commons in the cultural environment / Michael J. Madison, Brett M. Frischmann and Katherine J. Strandburg

The triune peer governance of the digital commons / Michel Bauwens

Multilevel governance and cross-scale coordination for natural resource management: Lessons from current research / Helen Markelova and Esther Mwangi

The atmosphere as a global commons / Ottmar Edenhofer, Christian Flachsland and Bernhard Lorentz

Transforming global resources into commons / Gerhard Scherhorn

Electricity commons

Toward a new industrial society / Julio Lambing

The failure of land privatization: On the need for new development policies / Dirk Lohr

The Yasuní-ITT initiative, or The complex construction of Utopia / Alberto Acosta

Equitable licensing

Ensuring access to innovation / Christina Godt, Christian Wagner-Ahlfs and Peter Tinnemann

P2P-urbanism: Backed by evidence / Nikos A. Salingaros and Federico Mena-Quintero

Epilogue.