IMO the boundary between the household and the larger informal/social economy is very permeable. The nuclear family household is relatively recent and artificial, and to a considerable extent encouraged by 20th century capitalism's promotion of social atomization which reduced the household to the smallest possible size which would still socialize the costs of reproducing labor-power and the culture of obedience without providing a potential base for cost-, income- and risk-pooling which might increase the bargaining power of labor. It's quite likely that as total labor hours decline and precarity increases, we'll see a lot more not only of multi-generational houses but of multi-family cohousing, micro-villages and the like that internalize an increasing share of direct production for use. On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 1:38 AM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote:

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

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