Free, Fair, and Alive | David Bollier & Silke Helfrich
Why it is included:
This is the operating system for a thriving society.
Bollier and Helfrich explain how to build them in the digital age.
They reject the "Market vs. State" binary and introduce the "Triad of Commoning":
Social Life (peer governance),
Peer Governance (rule-making), and
Provisioning (production).
It bridges the gap between the local and the global through "Cosmolocalism" (Design Global, Manufacture Local). It teaches us how to build systems that are distinct and locally rooted, yet connected by a global "knowledge commons," solving the problem of planetary governance without centralization.