Really Really Free Markets
Markus Euskirchen | 2. June 2010 | Filed under: Cooperative Economy • Rotating Post | Leave a comment
According to the capitalist lexicon, the “Free Market” is the economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses. Any sensible person can recognize immediately that neither human beings nor resources are free in such a system; hence, a “Really Really Free Market” is a market that operates according to Continue reading →
Commons
Markus Euskirchen | 26. February 2010 | Filed under: Allmende • Commons • Public Goods • Rotating Post | Leave a comment
After several decades of relentless neoliberal enclosures, the idea of ‘commons’ is enjoying a renaissance amongst some neo-Keynesian economists and commentators, while political scientist Elinor Ostrom has just been award the Nobel prize ‘for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons’. Massimo De Angelis explains why capital’s commons will always be distorted – because Continue reading →
Privatization from a left perspective
Markus Euskirchen | 26. September 2008 | Filed under: Intellectual Property • Privatization • Privatization • Rotating Post | Leave a comment
From a left perspective, the network ppg (privatization, public goods) examines impacts of privatization on the (re-)distribution of social ressources, on the (re-)distribution of political “goods” (effects of domination, democracy, participation, and access) and on the dimension of political/social conflicts. The network analyzes the interrelations between property, domination and equality.