Network society and future scenarios for a collaborative economy

"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 ge...

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Main Authors: Kostakis, Vasilis, Bauwens, Michel
Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke 2014
Palgrave Macmillan
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Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19112360124919305429-Network-society-and-future-sce.htm
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Summary:"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."
Physical Description:X, 87 p.
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