1 Introduction 1
1.1 What is P2P and How is it Related to the Commons? 2
1.2 Are P2P Technologies Good or Bad? 3
1.3 How Does P2P Relate to Capitalism? 4
1.4 How is P2P to be Implemented in Practice? 6
1.5 Towards a Commons-centric Society? 7
2 P2P and a New Ecosystem of Value Creation 11
2.1 Diverse Skills and Motivation 11
2.2 Transparent Heterarchy 12
2.3 A New Ecosystem of Value Creation 12
2.4 Four Short Case Studies 19
2.5 From Contradictions to an Integrated Economic Reality 27
3 P2P and New Socio-technological Frameworks 33
3.1 Two Generic Models 34
3.2 The Extractive Model of Cognitive Capitalism 36
3.3 The Generative Model of Commons-based Peer Production 39
4 P2P and the Structure of World History 47
4.1 Four Modes of Exchange 47
4.2 Towards Associationism 50
5 A Commons Transition Strategy 55
5.1 Pooling and Mutualizing Resources Wherever Possible 56
5.2 Introducing Reciprocity 56
5.3 From Redistribution to Empowerment and Predistribution 58
5.4 Subordinating the Capitalist Market 64
5.5 Organizing at the Local and Global Level 65
5.6 Summary of our Proposals 67
5.7 A Last Word 68
Subtitle: Infrastructures for a just and truly circular society: How shared permacircular supply chains, post-blockchain distributed ledgers, protocol cooperatives, and three new forms of post-capitalist accounting, could very well save the planet
Chapter 1: The Background to this Study
The P2P Foundation’s study of the commons and the commons transition
Figure: Cosmo-local production, http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/images/Cosmo-localism_-_table.png
Box: The four quadrant slide of the p2p foundation, updated with the four coop forms
Figure x: graphic 3.6 of the ghent report, https://goo.gl/images/zSf25K
Figure 1: our proposed triarchical structure
Figure 2: an updated version of our four quadrant view
Box: The evolution of the commons
Box: The evolution of research in the P2P Foundation
Box: The role of labour mutuals, commonfare and post-subordinate workers
The emerging crypto economy as a signpost for the cosmo-local transition
(Figure: Sarah Manski summary of the seven innovations of the blockchain
Figure x. Sarah Manski’s five scenarios
Figure: Contrasting the Propertarian Blockchain from Commons-Based Ledger Systems
Box: From Bitcoin to the Blockchain
Chapter 2: Tools and technologies for integrated, fair, and sustainable ecosystems of production
Holochain: an alternative to a global distributed ledger, based on biomimicry
DAOstack: integrated mechanisms for large-scale governance
Tools for Circulation and exchange
FairCoin and FairCoop : tools for a cosmo-local, open cooperative ecosystem
Trustlines: mutual credit for common good
Envienta: an integrated environment for open source manufacturing
FabChain: linking advanced research to urban metabolisms and mainstream production and manufacturing
Terra0: giving DAO agency to natural resources
Sustans: replacing Smart Contracts with Ostrom Contracts
Chapter 3: Evolution of Accounting
New Accounting and Planning Frameworks
Sensorica’s Open Value Network as an example of contributive accounting
MusiASEM , accounting for material/energy flows and their limits
Accounting for Impact and Externalities
Figure: Four kinds of externalities
Regen Network: ‘ecological state protocols’ to verify advances in sustainability and regenerativity
The Common Good Accounting System: competing for positive impact
Multi-layer integration: how the new technologies fit together