From New Institutional Economics of the Commons to the Common as a Mode of Production
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https://doi.org/10.24215/23143924e009Keywords:
commons, common in the singular, mode of production, political economy of the commons, cognitive capitalismAbstract
The purpose of this article is to describe the origin, the meaning, and the issues at stake in the debate that has developed around this recent area of research of the common and reformulate the notion of the common in a post-socialist context of overcoming capitalism. This article will first of all consider the contributions, but also the limits, of Ostrom's approach, which have led a number of researchers to formulate alternative approaches. Secondly, therefore, we will present the theories of the common in the singular. After a critical analysis of the most salient aspects of Dardot and Laval’s (2014) political and normative theory, we will turn our attention to the neo-operaista idea of the common as a mode of production. We will present the theoretical and conceptual framework of this idea to show how the commons constitutes a social-economic system that is derived from the internal contradictions of cognitive capitalism and offers a global alternative to a representation of society and economics based on the State-Market diarchy.
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