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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Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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Basingstoke
2014
Palgrave Macmillan |
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author | Kostakis, Vasilis Bauwens, Michel |
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description | "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." |
format | TEXT |
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institution | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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is_hierarchy_title | Network society and future scenarios for a collaborative economy |
language | English |
physical | X, 87 p. Paper |
publishDate | 2014 |
publisher | Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan |
spellingShingle | Kostakis, Vasilis Bauwens, Michel business economics capitalism economics innovation political development sharing economy Network society and future scenarios for a collaborative economy |
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title | Network society and future scenarios for a collaborative economy |
topic | business economics capitalism economics innovation political development sharing economy |
url | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19112360124919305429-Network-society-and-future-sce.htm |