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<div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;text-align:left;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">What is the role of the 'state' or public functions in a commons-centric society?</span></span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;text-align:left;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;text-align:left;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">I have argued for several years that one of the functions is to guarantee 'contributory equality', or equipotentiality, as the commons themselves are no guarantee for overall equality.</span></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;text-align:left;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;text-align:left;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">French commoners are continuously innovating and fabricating concepts and practices that are very often way beyond the anglo-saxon world, which gets all the attention.</span></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;text-align:left;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;text-align:left;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Here is another example, from 'author unknown' (Tetris ?); a marriage between Ostrom and Sen, which gives us the 'commons of capabilities':</span></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;text-align:left;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;text-align:left;font-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