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Public goods are typically defined only in reference to the good itself but, as this book argues, the public goods can be better understood if contextual variables are incorporated. This book discusses the production and provision of public goods. It asserts that changes related to public goods are better understood if the category of goods are not decided solely by the properties of the good itself. We also need to focus on how the enabled utility of a good is influenced by the production and the provision of the good. The book opens with a brief introduction to common conceptions of public goods and a review of the existing literature - highlighting the limitations of current definitions of public goods. It presents a new multi-layered approach to public goods. This has implications for the discourse on public goods and for our understanding of the societal and environmental impact of public goods. The implications are illustrated in several areas; public goods in ancient history, privatization, innovation, competitiveness and prices, democracy and political standards, and economic growth. The book provides a provocative argument for a new way to analyze public goods which will appeal to scholars and students interested in the economic analysis of public goods, arguments regarding the privatizing or nationalizing of production and services, and method of modelling and measuring sustainable business activities.

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Dieses Buch macht Mut. Es vereint ein Denken in Beziehungen mit einer neuen Art zu handeln. Das Ziel: eine freie, faire und lebendige Gesellschaft. Doch das Gewohnte hat sich tief eingegraben in unseren Köpfen, in unserem Alltag, in Markt und Staat.Silke Helfrich und David Bollier entwerfen dagegen ein Programm für ein gelingendes Miteinander, ein anderes Politikverständnis und ein sorgsames Wirtschaften. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei Commons-Praktiken. Sie zeigen, wie wir in Verschiedenheit gemeinsame Ziele verfolgen. Dabei können Häuser und Fahrzeuge in ähnlicher Weise wie ein Wiki entstehen. Das Buch stiftet an, wie ein »Commoner« zu denken. Es bietet eine Sprache für die Welt von morgen. Es verändert nicht nur die Wirtschaft und die Politik - es verändert uns. This book is meant to encourage. It unites relational thinking with a new way of acting. The goal: a free, fair and vibrant society. But what we are used to is deeply rooted in our minds, in our everyday lives, in the market and the state. Silke Helfrich and David Bollier uncover traditional patterns of thought and design a program for a successful cooperation, a different political understanding and a caring economy. They focus on practices, showing how we pursue common goals in diversity. In practice, houses and vehicles can be built in a similar way to Wikipedia. The book also encourages us to think like a »Commoner«. It offers a language for the world of tomorrow. It not only changes the economy and politics - it changes us.

Economic theory & philosophy --- Allmende. --- Commoning. --- Culture. --- Economic Policy. --- Economic Theory. --- Economy. --- Liveliness. --- Market. --- Nature. --- Politics. --- Property. --- Public Goods. --- Samples. --- Society. --- Sociology. --- State. --- Sustainability.

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Warum lohnt es sich über Infrastrukturen nachzudenken? Gegenwärtig erleben wir eine schier atemberaubende Zunahme und Verdichtung an infrastrukturell geleisteten Verknüpfungen rund um den Planeten. Gleichzeitig sind Infrastrukturen selbst auch Gegenstand sozial- und geisteswissenschaftlicher Forschungsarbeiten geworden. Dabei sind Infrastrukturen - so die leitende These dieses Essays - Instrumente und Medien der Verräumlichung. Why reflect on infrastructures? Today, we are experiencing a breathtaking expansion and intensification of infrastructural interconnections around the globe. At the same time, infrastructures have also become the explicit subject of research studies in the social sciences and humanities. Accordingly, the thesis of this essay is that infrastructures are the instruments and media of Verräumlichung (spatialization).

Infrastructure (Economics) --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital

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The volume scrutinizes publics and infrastructures not separately but in their constitutive interrelations and resonances. The contributions, originating in a range of disciplinary perspectives, share a praxeological approach, discussing historical and current processes of mediated cooperation in infrastructuring and making public(s) by tracing different forms of the production, design, and historic trajectories of various publics and infrastructures. The content • Perspectives • Civic Culture • Public Transport • Science and Academia The Target groups • Academics in the fields of science and technology studies, social sciences, media and communication studies, information technologies and history • practitioners in politics and administration, telecommunications, journalists and content providers The editors Matthias Korn is a researcher in socio-informatics and post doc in the CRC 1187 Media of Cooperation, University of Siegen. Wolfgang Reißmann is a researcher in communication and media studies and post doc in the CRC 1187 Media of Cooperation, University of Siegen. Tobias Röhl is a researcher in sociology and post doc in the CRC 1187 Media of Cooperation, University of Siegen. David Sittler is a media and urban historian and was coordinator of the Research Lab Transformations of Life and Knowledge, University of Cologne.

Infrastructure (Economics) --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Communication Studies. --- Media Research. --- Communication. --- Sociology. --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology

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Africa's rapid population growth and urbanisation has made its socioeconomic development a global priority. But as China ramps up its assistance in bridging Africa's basic infrastructure gap to the detriment of institutions building, warnings of a debt trap have followed. Building upon an extensive body of evidence, the editors argue that developing institutions and infrastructure are two equally desirable but organisationally incompatible objectives. In conceptualising this duality by design, a new theoretical framework proposes better understanding of the differing approaches to development espoused by traditional agencies, such as the World Bank, and emergent Chinese agencies. This new framing moves the debate away from the fruitless search for a 'superior' form of organising, and instead suggests looking for complementarities in competing forms of organising for development. For students and researchers in international business, strategic and public management, and complex systems, as well as practitioners in international development and business in emergent markets.

Infrastructure (Economics) --- Public works --- Public works projects --- Buildings --- Construction projects --- Civil engineering --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Capital