OUR COMMON WEALTH
PRACTICE
Jonathan Rowe wasn’t only a thinker; he was also a doer and an admirer of doers. In this part of the book he discusses current and potential efforts to make the commons a vibrant counterweight to the market.
One new practice he invites is better accounting of common wealth. This would reveal that much of what we think is growth is in fact a cannibalization of assets we depend on. No business would last long if it were managed this way.
Other practices Rowe wants more of would enlarge the public domains of science, art, and ideas. The Constitution allows patents and copyrights for “limited times” only because, in ...
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