Jean Lievens: Beyond the market-state – decentralising power in a sharing society

This is broadly in line with what P2P theorist Michel Bauwens refers to as the partner state – a reformed governmental apparatus that builds on the welfare state… Beyond the market-state: decentralising power in a sharing society CONCLUSION: Resilient and socially inclusive communities can clearly play an immediate role in the great transition that still …

Michel Bauwens: Integral Research Methodology

* Essay: Integral Review and its Editors. By Sara Ross, Reinhard Fuhr, Michel Bauwens, et al. INTEGRAL REVIEW 1, 2005.  Excerpt: Beyond Perspectives, Reductionisms and Layers. By Michael Bauwens, pp. 14-17. The Integral approach can be seen as a reaction against the limitations and unforeseen effects of the previous methods. Unlike analytical science, it focuses …

Open Power: Libertarian Focus

We are splitting Open Power in three to make it easier for the different constituencies to work with what particularly interests them.The original will remain focused on the Electoral Reform Act of 2015. Tools can be seen at http://tinyurl.com/OpenPower-Tools. Here is the Tiny URL for Libertarians: http://tinyurl.com/OpenPower-Libertarian.  Home page remains http://tinyurl.com/OpenPower. Robert Steele Short Bio …

Michel Bauwens: Future of Collaborative Economy & Networked Society – Vsilis Kostakis Co-Author

Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy This entry is about “Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy” co-authored by Vasilis Kostakis and Michel Bauwens. The scholarly book is published by Palgrave Macmillan and here you may find a draft of it. Sharing the conviction that the globalized economy is at …