The State, the Market, and some Preliminary Question about the Commons

Ugo Mattei
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Ugo Mattei: UC Hastings, University of Turin & IUC Turin

No 1-11, IUC Research Commons from International University College of Turin

Abstract: Despite the dramatic crisis of 2008, when the free market ideology has shown its catastrophic nature, State intervention - dubbed Keynesian policy - has been utilized to transfer massive amounts of public money to the private sector. What we need is rather a very large extension of the commons framework to subvert the domination of private property (with its rhetoric of autonomy and of the rule of law) currently sustained by both the State and the market. Commons expansion favors the opposite logic, of authentic participatory democracy in both the State and market domains. The agenda of 'less government, less market, more commons' is the only way to resurrect an alternative narrative of social inclusion (and direct satisfaction of social rights) capable of re-gaining hegemony.

Keywords: commons; political economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: P48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2011-03
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