Commons based production and value: contributions to the analytical frame

• Autores: Marco Berlinguer
• Directores de la Tesis: Joan Subirats i Humet (dir. tes.), Riccardo Bellofiore (codir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ( España ) en 2017
• Idioma: español
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Eduard Aibar Puentes (presid.), Gabriel Bascones de la Cruz (secret.), Víctor Sampedro Blanco (voc.)
• Calificación: Sobresaliente
• Materias:
  • Ciencias tecnológicas
    • Planificación urbana
      • Organización comunitaria
  • Ciencias económicas
    • Actividad económica
      • Producción
  • Ética
    • Ética de individuos
      • Códigos de valores
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en:  DDD  TDX 
• Resumen

  • Commons Based Production and Value. Contributions to the analytical frame.

    The ambition of this thesis is to contribute to the progress of the state of the art of the scientific literature that has developed around the notion of the commons, interpreted as a crucial and innovative element that is marking important transformations in the organization of contemporary production.

    In general terms, the obective of the thesis is to advance in the development of a framework inspired by the notion of the commons to analyze some challenging features of new forms of production, which have been appearing along the last decades, across the crisis of the fordist-keynesian capitalistic regime, the installation of a new techno-economical paradigm and the emergence of an informational mode of development. Working along with different streams of research that engaged recently with the rediscovery of the notion of the commons, this thesis aims to provide arguments towards the necessity to pluralize our framework of analysis concerning the collective practices and institutions surrounding the provisioning and governance of core goods and services in complex modern economies, going beyond the dominant binary organized on the state vs market duopoly.

    Compared with the state of the art, the main innovations and areas of contributions are two.

    First of all, rather than centering the research on the commons conceived as an autonomous sphere of social production, it mainly aims to utilize the commons as a framework to analyze hybrid arrangements, in which the commons appear enmeshed with transformations that are taking place in the forms of working of both the capitalistic market and the state.

    Secondly, it aims to advance the limited research that has been done so far around the development of a framework to understand and assess the value generated in conditions of sharing, that is, according to a logic that is radically different from the logic of exchange value.

    The thesis is composed by a collection of three articles.

    Berlinguer, M. (2014). The social economy in Italy, pp. 101-126, in Satgar, V. (ed.) (2014). The solidarity economy alternative: Emerging theory and practice, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.

    Berlinguer, M., Fuster Morell, M., Joan Subirats, J. (2016). Investigando nuevas coordenadas de intercambio y de valor. Las comunidades de producción colaborativa entre pares y procomún. Revista Arbor. Numero monográfico: La transición a lo digital del sistema cultural: nuevas narrativas, nuevas reglas. ISNN 0210-1963 Berlinguer, M. (Forthcoming). Valuing sharing. How commons have become part of informational capitalism and what we can learn from it. The case of FOSS.