Kostakis & Bauwens: Network Society and Future Scenarios for a
Collaborative Economy
Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens
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.
http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/network-society-and-future-scenarios-for-a-collaborative-economy-vasilis-kostakis/?k=9781137415066
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