Dear Michel Bauwens,

As part of STWR’s ‘global call for sharing’ campaign, we are periodically highlighting the growing public debate on the need for wealth, power and resources to be shared more equitably both within countries and internationally. This debate is becoming more prominent by the day, although it is often framed in an implicit context without directly acknowledging how the principle of sharing is central to resolving today’s interlocking crises. In this light, our latest editorial illustrates some of the many and diverse ways in which a call for sharing is being expressed, whether it’s by politicians, economists, campaigners, activists, academics or anyone else.    
Newsletter editorial: February 2015

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A world of ‘sharing and caring’ won’t begin in Davos
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Oxfam’s latest bombshell on how unequally the world’s wealth is shared
Twitter feeds and newspaper headlines were again dominated this morning by new statistics on growing wealth inequality, as released by Oxfam ahead of this week’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.​

Leading Churchmen in Britain call for a more equal and sharing society
The Church of England has spoken out in trenchant terms about the extreme inequality that defines modern Britain, arguing today that moral principles and sharing should underpin the foundations of society.

Kommerzialisierung: die Antithese des Teilens

Ein Diskurs über Ismen und das Prinzip des Teilens

A full list of this series of studies can be found here

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