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  Governing the Commons

  The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

  by Elinor Ostrom

  The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor Ostrom here... (more)
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  The Future of Ideas

  The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World

  by Lawrence Lessig

  The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In The Future of Ideas , Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating the law for their own purposes, corporations have established themselves... (more)
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  Copyrights and Copywrongs

  The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity

  by Siva Vaidhyanathan

  "Illuminating" — Bookforum April-June 2002 "It has taken lawyers 200-plus years to morph copyright law from the balanced compromise that our framers struck to the extraordinary system of control that it has become. In this beautifully written book, a nonlawyer has uncovered much of the damage done. Copyrights and Copywrongs is a rich and compelling account of the bending of American copyright law, and a... (more)
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  CODE: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy (Leonardo Books)

  Open source software is considered by many to be a novelty and the open source movement a revolution. Yet the collaborative creation of knowledge has gone on for as long as humans have been able to communicate. CODE looks at the collaborative model of creativity—with examples ranging from collective ownership in indigenous societies to free software, academic science, and the human genome project—and finds it an... (more)
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  The Global Commons

  An Introduction

  by Susan J. Buck

  Vast areas of valuable resources unfettered by legal rights have, for centuries, been the central target of human exploitation and appropriation. The global commons-Antarctica, the high seas and deep seabed minerals, the atmosphere, and space-have remained exceptions only because access has been difficult or impossible, and the technology for successful extraction has been lacking. Now, technology has caught up... (more)
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  Technologies of Freedom (Belknap Press)

  by Ithiel de Sola Pool

  Technologies of Freedom is still a defining study of communications and human freedom, both a history of older systems of communication and a visionary account of the ways in which emerging digital technologies might transform social and political life. The key claim is Ithiel's argument that . . . "people who think about social change in traditional political <even radical> terms cannot begin to imagine the... (more)
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  Beyond Developmentality: Constructing Inclusive Freedom and Sustainability

  by Debal Deb

  Beyond Developmentality traces the origin and evolution of the concept of development in the economic context, and suggests a way to achieve post-industrial development with zero industrial growth. The book argues that sustainable development is possible only when concerns for biodiversity and human development are put at the center of the economy and social policy. It provides both a theoretical foundation to... (more)