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Co-Governing Our Commons: Local to Global Decision-Making through Public Deliberation

 

Apr 9 2012in Assemblies, Commons, Direct Democracy, FoO Media, Identity & Strategy, Social Innovation, Working Groups by mbsteisslingerTags: , , , , , ,
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Using Public Deliberation: Co-governing the Commons By Jan Inglis Commons: gifts of nature & society; wealth we inherit or create together and must pass on, undiminished or enhanced, to our children; e.g. water, oceans, culture, technology, seeds etc Public Deliberation: a process for reaching agreements by deeply considering the costs, consequences, and trade offs of various [...]

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Social Charters: A comprehensive program for (re)claiming sovereignty over our natural and social commons resources

 

Apr 9 2012in Commons, Direct Democracy, Economics, FoO Media, Identity & Strategy, Social Innovation by mbsteisslingerTags: , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Social Charters:  Praxis of the Commons By James Bernard Quilligan, Commons Economist & Advocate                 Beyond the Market State There are two operating systems involved in the provision and allocation of goods and services in modern society. Each has familiar roots in history. Adam Smith’s legacy is that the self-interest [...]

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Sage Advice for Occupy? from Nobel winner Elinor Ostrom

 

Dec 12 2011in A Top Story, Academics & Research, Commons, FoO Media, Frameworks & Models by mbsteisslingerTags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Dr. Elinor Ostrom, 2009 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics for her 30+ years of research and study of commons* management, is joined by many other commons supporters in saying that the “tragedy of the commons” is that of the unmanaged or unsuccessfully managed commons.  What we have now is an entire paradigm managed for the [...]

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