the following was prompted by Jose Ramos, who was thinking about his new book on commons policy, SO, WE NEED TO WORK ON SIGNIFICANT GAPS IN P2P THEORY, and in particular: after hearing a recent monbiot video where he mentioned 4 economic spheres, (market-state-commons-households), rather than the 3 we are using at the p2p foundation (market-state-commons) ... I have started thinking that in our (at least mine) own work, I have really collapsed household and commons, because I on the one hand, I see the family as a commons and caring as commoning, but on the other hand, I have not seen any solution yet emerge, as how commons-based peer production can actually help the household economy, so basically, I am asking for help and ideas on how we could think this through, here is a potential framework: I would suggest a potential scheme take the 4 economic sectors: commons, state, market and households each of these has internal governance aspects and specific characteristics then, they need to relate to each other, given us commons-market, commons to state, commons-households, etc.. then, all of this needs a meta-framework so far the work at the p2p foundation has been at the intersection of 1) a general framework for commons/state/market, and I believe we have done good work on this 2) work on commons-state (in value in the commons economy and other work) 3) state-commons: our work in ecaudor (focusing on social knowledge commons) and our work in ghent, focusing on institutional design for public-commons cooperation; I think we have done good work and advanced significantly in these 3 directions -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/