Our Common Wealth The Hidden Economy That Makes Everything Else Work

Name: Our Common Wealth The Hidden Economy That Makes Everything Else Work
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ISBN: 9781609948337

ISBN-10: 1609948335

ISBN-13: 9781609948337

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jonathan Rowe, Peter Barnes, Bill McKibben, David Bollier

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A huge part of our economy is invisible, invaluable, and highly vulnerable. "The Commons" is a generic term that denotes everything we share, our entire life support system, both natural and social. Some parts of the commons are gifts of nature: the air and oceans, the web of species, wilderness and flowing water. Others are the product of human creativity and endeavor: sidewalks and public squares, the stories of childhood, language, customs and traditions. But they all “belong” to all of us, if that is the word. No one has exclusive rights. We inherit them jointly and hold them in trust for those who come after us.This concise, comprehensive work examines the history and tragic neglect of…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.46" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English

Jonathan Rowe was a Nader's "Raider," a US Senate aide, an editor at the Washington Monthly, and cofounder of OntheCommons.org.



Foreword



Introduction



Theory



Our Hidden Wealth



How Tragic Is the Commons?



A New Commons Story



A Parallel Economy



Stop the Invasions!



The Myopia of Money



Human Nature and the Commons



Common Property



Takers and Givers



The Community of Goods



Conservative Commoners, Once


Practice



Accounting for Common Wealth



Tollbooths of the Mind



Subsistence from the Commons



Build It and They Will Sit



Sidewalks of the Information Age



Reallocating Time



Time Banking



Who Owns the Beach?



From Alleys to Commons



New Institutions Needed



Seeds of a Commons Movement


Afterword



Notes


Acknowledgments


Index


About the Author


About the Editor


About On The Commons


About West Marin Commons