Toward a Political Economy of the Commons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward a Political Economy of the Commons write by Cai, Meina. This book was released on 2022-01-14. Toward a Political Economy of the Commons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since Garrett Hardin published The Tragedy of the Commons in 1968, critics have argued that population growth and capitalism contribute to overuse of natural resources and degradation of the global environment. They propose coercive, state-centric solutions. This book offers an alternative view. Employing insights from new institutional economics, the authors argue that property rights, competitive markets, polycentric political institutions, and social institutions such as trust, patience and individualism enable society to conserve natural resources and mitigate harms to the global environment.
A Political Economy of Attention, Mindfulness and Consumerism
A Political Economy of Attention, Mindfulness and Consumerism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Political Economy of Attention, Mindfulness and Consumerism write by Peter Doran. This book was released on 2017-07-14. A Political Economy of Attention, Mindfulness and Consumerism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The power of capital is the power to target our attention, mould market-ready identities, and reduce the public realm to an endless series of choices. This has far-reaching implications for our psychological, physical and spiritual well-being, and ultimately for our global ecology. In this consumer age, the underlying teachings of Buddhist mindfulness offer more than individual well-being and resilience. They also offer new sources of critical inquiry into our collective condition, and may point, in time, to regulatory initiatives in the field of well-being. This book draws together lively debates from the new economics of transition, commons and well-being, consumerism, and the emerging role of mindfulness in popular culture. Engaged Buddhist practices and teachings correspond closely to insights in contemporary political philosophical investigations into the nature of power, notably by Michel Foucault. The 'attention economy' can be understood as a new arena of struggle in our age of neoliberal governmentality; as the forces of enclosure – having colonized forests, land and the bodies of workers – are now extended to the realm of our minds and subjectivity. This poses questions about the recovery of the 'mindful commons': the practices we must cultivate to reclaim our attention, time and lives from the forces of capitalization. This is a valuable resource for students and scholars of environmental philosophy, environmental psychology, environmental sociology, well-being and new economics, political economy, environmental politics, the commons and law, as well as Buddhist theory and philosophy.
Integral Community
Integral Community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Integral Community write by Ronnie Lessem. This book was released on 2016-05-23. Integral Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Integral Community moves the transformation journey for enterprises and society on from the stages covered in earlier books in Gower's Transformation and Innovation Series, which describe a new macro-economic framework and which have examined alternative development with different local communities, bringing wide cultural perspectives to practical implementation of authentic or integral development. Here, the authors argue that there are two major fields of force prevailing in today's world. The one reflects our common heritage, whereby East and West, North and South are coming ever closer together - the global commons. The other reflects local and national singularity, where the notion of feeding off ancient local heritage and talent is key. They also identify four different culturally laden worldviews as Southern - humanistic, Eastern - holistic, Northern - rational, and Western - pragmatic. The enterprise and social innovation in Africa with which Lessem's co-authors are involved provides an object lesson in the sort of differentiation and integration needed in order to operate, socio-economically, with local identity and global integrity. It provides in this case a 'Southern' worldview background against which to examine communally based self-sufficiency; culturally based developmental economy; knowledge based social economy; and finally, the move towards what the authors describe as a living economy. All illustrated through a rural case, Chinyika, with which they have been intimately involved, whereby 100,000 have become self sufficient over the past five years. Integral Community should be read by academics and students of business, economics, development studies and agriculture, and by policy makers, particularly those concerned with the developing world in general and Africa in particular.
Governing the Commons
Governing the Commons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Governing the Commons write by Elinor Ostrom. This book was released on 2015-09-23. Governing the Commons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.
The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty
The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty write by Franklin Obeng-Odoom. This book was released on 2020-11-03. The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the last two hundred years, the earth has increasingly become the private property of a few classes, races, transnational corporations, and nations. Repeated claims about the "tragedy of the commons" and the "crisis of capitalism" have done little to explain this concentration of land, encourage solution-building to solve resource depletion, or address our current socio-ecological crisis. The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty presents a new explanation, vision, and action plan based on the idea of commoning the land. The book argues that by commoning the land, rather than privatising it, we can develop the foundation for prosperity without destructive growth and address both local and global challenges. Making the land the most fundamental priority of all commons does not only give hope, it also opens the doors to a new world in which economy, environment, and society are decolonised and liberated.
