David Bollier

David Bollier is an author, activist, blogger and consultant who has spent the past ten years exploring the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture. He has pursued this work in collaboration with a variety of international and domestic partners. He speaks widely about the commons, and recently co-founded a new international organization, Commons Strategies, dedicated to developing and promoting commons-based public policies and initiatives. In 2010, Bollier taught a course on the topic as the Croxton Lecturer at Amherst College.

blog: www.bollier.org.

7 publications

• Le pouvoir subversif des communs

  David Bollier, Silke Helfrich, Editions Charles Léopold Meyer, Paris, France, 2022

• Free, Fair and Alive

  The insurgent power of the commons.

  David Bollier, Silke Helfrich, New Society Publishers, September 2019

• Die Welt der Commons. Muster gemeinsamen Handelns.

  Silke Helfrich, David Bollier und die Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Bielefeld, Deutschland, October 2015

• Patterns of Commoning

  The Commons strategy group

  coedited by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich, The Commons strategy group and Off the Common Press, 2015

• Think Like a Commoner. A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons.

  David Bollier, New society Publishers, United States, April 2014

• La Renaissance des communs. Pour une société de coopération et de partage.

  David Bollier, Editions Charles Léopold Meyer, ECLM, Paris, France, 2014

• The wealth of the Commons. A world beyond Market & State

  Edited by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich, Levellers Press, United States, December 2012

One video

• Film: This Land is our land

  David Bollier, December 2010

4 Analyses/working papers/articles

• Book : The Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking : Tools for the transitions ahead

  Edited by the Schumacher Intitute for a New Economics

  David Bollier, January 2022

• Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm

  David Bollier, April 2016

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• Democratic Money and Capital for the Commons. Strategies for Transforming Neoliberal Finance Through Commons-Based Alternatives.

  David Bollier, Patrick Conaty, January 2016

• TOWARD AN OPEN CO-OPERATIVISM. A New Social Economy Based on Open Platforms, Co-operative Models and the Commons.

  A Report on a Commons Strategies Group Workshop Berlin, Germany August 27-28, 2014

  Patrick Conaty, David Bollier, August 2014

One public contribution

• The International Commons Conference, Berlin, Germany, Nov 1, 2010

  An Interpretive Summary by David Bollier

  David Bollier, November 2010

  Heinrich Böll Foundation

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