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This open access book presents an alternative to capitalism and state socialism through the modelling of a post-market and post-state utopia based on an upscaling of the commons, feminist political economy and democratic and council-based planning approaches. It discusses the left’s need to explore non-capitalist modes of production, the inability of green or socialist market economies to produce real social and ecological change, and the need to look beyond traditional ideas of reform and revolution. The book discusses how a socio-economic organisation beyond money, wage labour, patriarchal division of work and centralised state planning may look like. It develops an approach to societal transformation based on seed forms of commons practices and social movements. This book will be relevant to activists, students and researchers interested in fundamental social change, political economy and feminist and Marxist economics. This is an open access book.

Political economy --- Public finance --- Macroeconomics --- Post-capitalism --- Social ecology --- Model of a post-market society --- Post-state socialism --- Utopian thinking --- Commonism --- Interpersonal transformation theory --- State-oriented transformation theory --- Transvolution --- Categorical utopia theory --- Limits of utopian thinking --- The origins of capitalism --- Development of commonism --- Economics --- Social change --- Utopias. --- Philosophy. --- Economic aspects.

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Piracy is among the most prevalent and vexing issues of the digital age. In just the past decade, it has altered the music industry beyond recognition, changed the way people watch television, and made a dent in the buisness of the film and software industries. From MP3 files to recipes from French celebrity chefs to the jokes of American stand-up comedians, piracy is ubiquitous. And now piracy can even be an arbiter of taste, as seen in the decision by Netflix Netherlands to license heavily pirated shows. In this unflinching analysis of piracy on the Internet and in the markets of the Global South, Tilman Baumgärtel brings together a collection of essays examining the economic, political, and cultural consequences of piracy. The contributors explore a wide array of topics, which include materiality and piracy in Rio de Janeiro; informal media distribution and the film experience in Hanoi, Vietnam; the infrastructure of piracy in Nigeria; the political economy of copy protection; and much more. Offering a theoretical background for future studies of piracy, A Reader in International Media Piracy is an important collection on the burning issue of the Internet Age.

Mass media --- Piracy (Copyright) --- Unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted material --- Copyright infringement --- Economic aspects. --- Economic aspects --- E-books --- Médias --- Aspect économique. --- Mass media Economic aspects --- Media Piracy, Globalization, Audience Studies, Transnational Media, Global South.