Select Schumacher Center Lectures relating to the Commons
Peter Barnes | Capitalism, the Commons and Divine Right
Peter Barnes | Economics for the Anthropocene
Thomas Berry | Every Being Has Rights
Otto Scharmer | America Emerging: Western Civilization 2.0
Vandana Shiva | Biopiracy: The Colonization of Seed
Gordon Thorne | Community Arts Trust
Susan Witt | Informed by Place, Guided by Wisdom, A New Economy is Emerging
Robert Swann & Susan Witt | Land: Challenge and Opportunity
Wes Jackson & Wendell Berry, and Mary Berry | A Conversation
See also the 1966 essay by E. F. Schumacher, Buddhist Economics.
Notable Books and Essays on the Commons
Think Like a Commoner (2014), by David Bollier
Patterns of Commoning (2015), edited by Bollier and Helfrich. Available free online.
The Wealth of the Commons (2012), edited by Bollier and Helfrich. Available free online.
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (1990), by Elinor Ostrom
Sustaining the Commons (2013), by John M. Anderies and Marco A. Janssen. Available free online.
Our Common Wealth (2013), by Jonathan Rowe
Common as Air: Revolution, Art and Ownership (2010), by Lewis Hyde
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property (1983), by Lewis Hyde
The Magna Carta Manifesto (2008), by Peter Linebaugh
….and here is a select bibliography of additional readings.
Videos
“Commons and Commoning: A Progressive Vision of a Good Society,” David Bollier and Guy Standing at the Oxford Real Farming Conference, 2023.
“PostCapitalism and the Commons“ Video Course Playlist, David Bollier, Urbánika, 2024.
“New Economy Models: The Victory of the Commons,” David Bollier is interviewed on The Laura Flanders Show, May 23, 2017. (25:15)
“The City as a Commons,” David Bollier speaks at the Smart City Expo World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, November 17, 2016. (32:57)
“Re-imagining the Commons,” David Bollier speaks to annual meeting of Berkshire Community Land Trust, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, April 23, 2017. (49:57)
“The Deeper Magic of the Commons,” podcast with James Lindenschmidt, a set of edited interviews with leading activist-thinkers on the commons: David Bollier, Peter Linebaugh, George Caffentzis, Massimo De Angelis, June 2016. (56:00)
“Commons in Action,” a series of short animated videos about various types of commons, produced by the International Association for the Study of Commons. Each of the six videos is less than three minutes.
Remix the Commons website features dozens of short video interviews with commoners from around the world. In English and French, 2010-2015.
“The Commons in Political Spaces: For a Post-Capitalist Transition,” Remix the Commons. (25:42)
The Promise of the Commons” [about subsistence commons in Asia and India] Environmental Education Media Project, 2013 (50:00 version) and (20:00 version)
“A Commons Conversation” [on subsistence commons], Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, 2014. (5:12)