David Bollier

David Bollier is Director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, and author of Think Like a Commoner and co-editor of Patterns of Commoning. He blogs at Bollier.org.

My Advice to an Aspiring Economist: Don’t Be an Economist

There is a new world that is fast-overtaking us, and it needs to be seen and explained on its own terms.

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What Will Replace Outdated Left and Right Economic Thinking? The Commons Paradigm.

The commons is about self-organized social systems for managing shared wealth.

By David Bollier The rise of so many right-wing nationalist movements around the world—Brexit, Donald Trump, the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, anti-immigrant protests throughout Europe—have their own distinctive origins and contexts, to be sure. But […]

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If Capitalism Can’t Bind People, What Will?

The forgotten legal history of the commons

By David Bollier One of the most insidious things about enclosures is how they eradicate the culture of the commons and our memory of it. The old ways of doing things; the social practices that […]

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The Only Woman to Win the Nobel Prize in Economics Also Debunked the Orthodoxy

The truth about the tragedy of the commons

By David Bollier “Picture a pasture open to all.” For at least a generation, the very idea of the commons has been marginalized and dismissed as a misguided way to manage resources: the so-called tragedy […]

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