Commons and business: Capitalism 3.0

Peter Barnes in Capitalism 3.0 talks about the costs and benefits of the free market.

In his metaphore capitalism is run by an “operating system”, giving too much resources to big corporations, who distribute profits to tiny portion of the population.

In order to fix capitalism 2.0 “bugs” he suggests to protect the commons by giving it property rights and strong institutional managers named commons trust.

The book is freely downloadable, but you can also buy it.

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2 Responses to “Commons and business: Capitalism 3.0”


  1. 1 Savio Rodrigues

    Thanks for the pointer - sounds like a good read.

  2. 2 Roberto Galoppini

    You’re welcome, let me know what do you think about it.

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