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Reflections on the Contradictions of the Commons

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  • Vangelis Papadimitropoulos

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The Commons are an emerging economic anti-paradigm that favor decentralization over central control, self-management over hierarchy, transparency over privacy, and sustainability over growth at all costs. But the Commons are still in their infancy, and they face several contradictions, as they develop in mutual dependence with capitalism. This article is an attempt to tackle these contradictions by building on a number of proposals already presented by Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis, Stefan Meretz, and Jacob Rigi.

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  • Vangelis Papadimitropoulos, 2018. "Reflections on the Contradictions of the Commons," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 50(2), pages 317-331, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:50:y:2018:i:2:p:317-331
    DOI: 10.1177/0486613417735660
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    Keywords

    peer-to-peer production; the Commons; multistakeholder cooperative; neo-feudal cognitive capitalism; open cooperativism; partner state;
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    JEL classification:

    • O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth
    • P - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems

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