Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy

This book builds on the idea that peer-to-peer infrastructures are gradually becoming the general conditions of work, economy, and society. Using a four-scenario approach, the authors seek to simplify possible outcomes and to explore relevant trajectories of the current techno-economic paradigm within and beyond capitalism.

List of contents

PART I: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 1. Capitalism as a Creative Destruction System 2. Beyond the End of History: Three Competing Value Models 3. The P2P Infrastructures: Two Axes and Four Quadrants PART II: COGNITIVE CAPITALISM 4. Netarchical Capitalism 5. Distributed Capitalism 6. The Social Dynamics of the Mixed Model of Neo-feudal Cognitive Capitalism PART III: THE HYPOTHETICAL MODEL OF MATURE PEER PRODUCTION: TOWARDS A COMMONS-ORIENTED ECONOMY AND SOCIETY 7. Resilient Communities 8. Global Commons 9. Transition Proposals Towards a Commons-oriented Economy and Society Conclusions

About the author

Vasilis Kostakis is a political economist and founder of the P2P Lab. He is also a research fellow at the Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, and a collaborator of the P2P Foundation.

Michel Bauwens is the founder of the Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives (P2P Foundation). Among others, he is one of three co-founders and partners of the Commons Strategies Group and, in 2014, he worked as the research director of the FLOK Society transition program in Ecuador.

Product details

• Authors: M Bauwens, M. Bauwens, Michael Bauwens, Michael Kostakis Bauwens, Michel Bauwens, Kostakis, V Kostakis, V. Kostakis, Vasileios Kostakis
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.08.2014
• EAN: 9781137415066
• ISBN: 978-1-137-41506-6
• No. of pages: 107
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Management, C, Economic Policy, Corporate Finance, Innovation/Technology Management, Political Economy, Research & development management, Industrial Management, Sustainability Management, Business & the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business, Industrial management—Environmental aspects, International Political Economy, Palgrave Intern. Relations & Development Collection, Start-Ups/Venture Capital, New business enterprises, Innovation and Technology Management, International Political Economy’, Start-Ups and Venture Capital