Michel Bauwens

A new ma­jor­i­ty is in the mak­ing: A band of nat­ur­al al­lies for a com­mons-cen­tred trans­for­ma­tion is on the rise.

Debt-free mon­ey may well be the so­lu­tion to restor­ing a sane mon­e­tary sys­tem.

What do me­dieval monks, Cuban so­cial­ists and Wikipedia have in com­mon?

As the wel­fare state de­clines, what’s need­ed are de­mo­c­ra­t­i­cal­ly-run, civic in­sti­tu­tions that pro­tect the com­mon good.

The Oc­cu­py Wall Street move­ment is a mod­el for a new eco­nom­ic par­a­digm, in which val­ue is first cre­at­ed by com­mu­ni­ties.

Open-source soft­ware, shared in­no­va­tion and crowd-sourced man­u­fac­tur­ing threat­en cap­i­tal­ism as we know it.