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Political Economy and the Inclusive Commons , House of Commons, Portcullis House, London 8 May 2012

on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 21:40

It is an honor to be a guest in this august body, the House of Commons.

I’m sure that you don’t need a outsider to come in here and tell you about English history, but I would like to remind you about the meaning of this word, commons.

In the beginning was the common. People hunted and gathered on the common to meet their needs.

Like all species, human beings inhabited familiar territories in their vicinity, but these were communal to their family or tribe, not owned by particular persons.

Can business trusts be commons?

on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 06:14

THE SOCIETY FOR ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING (UK) presents:

BUSINESS TRUSTS: WORKING IN TRUST (25 JAN. 2012)

Presented by Patrick Andrews, Tim Phillips and Rick Trask

The Challenge

The advent of limited liability and joint stock companies (while very useful in raising capital for large projects, creating and privatising wealth, and converting natural wealth to money wealth) has created distant owners and limited loyalty to the business.

Meeting James Quilligan, a Seminar on “Managing Local and Global Commons”

on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 23:49
The global economic crisis has seen the European and global economy teeter on the edge of catastrophe making the timing of our second event in a series of ‘Meetings with Remarkable Commoners’ all the more relevant. The Remarkable Commoner in question was James Quilligan, the Chairman for the Secretariat of Global Commons Trust, commons theorist, activist, policy analyst and advisor (extended bio here). He is also an advisor to the School of Commoning (SoC). George Por (SoC co-founder) began the evening by...