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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.

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Economics Political economy

• Full title: Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy
• Author: Michael Bauwens, Vasileios Kostakis
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 97
• EAN: 9781137415066
• ISBN: 1137415061
• ID: 05140704
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 266 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 157 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. August 2014

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