Peer to Peer: The Commons Manifesto

By Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis, Alex Pazaitis. 2019

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Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a more profound transformation of the fundamentals of our social life. As capitalism faces a series of structural crises, a new social, political and economic dynamic is emerging: peer to peer. What is peer to peer? Why is it essential for building a commons-centric future? How could this happen? These are the questions this book tries to answer. Peer to peer is a type of social relations in human networks, as well as a technological infrastructure that makes the generalization and scaling up of such relations possible. Thus, peer to peer enables a new mode of production and creates the potential for a transition to a commons-oriented economy.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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• Research On Degrowth (2018, unknown): “…580 designers—to become more autonomous by controlling the manufacturing of their means of production. a 01 e 0 a 13 information and communication technologies enables the global scaling up of small group dynamics. i d e from peer-to-peer for market-based exchange, as in the Bitcoin network (127).”