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Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Vasilis Kostakis

    1. Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

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  2. Michel Bauwens

    1. P2P Foundation, Netherlands

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Theoretical Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Capitalism as a Creative Destruction System

      • Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens
      Pages 2-8

    3. Beyond the End of History: Three Competing Value Models

      • Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens
      Pages 9-14

    4. The P2P Infrastructures: Two Axes and Four Quadrants

      • Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens
      Pages 15-19

  3. Cognitive Capitalism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 20-22
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    2. Netarchical Capitalism

      • Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens
      Pages 23-29

    3. Distributed Capitalism

      • Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens
      Pages 30-34

    4. The Social Dynamics of the Mixed Model of Neo-feudal Cognitive Capitalism

      • Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens
      Pages 35-37

  4. The Hypothetical Model of Mature Peer Production: Toward a Commons-Oriented Economy and Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 38-44
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    2. Resilient Communities

      • Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens
      Pages 45-49

    3. Global Commons

      • Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens
      Pages 50-58

    4. Transition Proposals toward a Commons-Oriented Economy and Society

      • Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens
      Pages 59-69

  5. Conclusions

    1. Conclusions

      • Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens
      Pages 70-73

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 74-87
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

    Vasilis Kostakis

  • P2P Foundation, Netherlands

    Michel Bauwens

About the authors

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.

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