<div dir="ltr">the following was prompted by Jose Ramos, who was thinking about his new book on commons policy,<div><br></div><div>SO, WE NEED TO WORK ON SIGNIFICANT GAPS IN P2P THEORY, and in particular:</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px"><br></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">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) ...</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px"><br></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">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 e<span class="gmail-text_exposed_show" style="display:inline;font-family:inherit">merge, as how commons-based peer production can actually help the household economy,</span></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px"><span class="gmail-text_exposed_show" style="display:inline;font-family:inherit"><br></span></p><div class="gmail-text_exposed_show" style="display:inline;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px;font-family:inherit">so basically, I am asking for help and ideas on how we could think this through,</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px;font-family:inherit"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(246,247,249)"> </span><span style="font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(246,247,249)"><span style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><span class="gmail-UFICommentBody" style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">here is a potential framework: I would suggest a potential scheme</span><br><br><span style="font-family:inherit">take the 4 economic sectors: commons, state, market and households</span><br><br><span style="font-family:inherit">each of these has internal governance aspects and specific characteristics</span><br><br><span style="font-family:inherit">then, they need to relate to each other, given us commons-market, commons to state, commons-households, etc..</span><br><br><span style="font-family:inherit">then, all of this needs a meta-framework</span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(246,247,249)"><span style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><span class="gmail-UFICommentBody" style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(246,247,249)">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</span><span style="font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(246,247,249)"><span style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><span class="gmail-UFICommentBody" style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></span></span></span></span></p></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: <a href="http://commonstransition.org" target="_blank">http://commonstransition.org</a>  </div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a>  - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br><br><a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank"></a>Updates: <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens</a><br><br>#82 on the (En)Rich list: <a href="http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/" target="_blank">http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/</a> <br></div></div></div></div>
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