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Silent Theft
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The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth
Silent Theft
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The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth
ByDavid Bollier
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2003
eBook Published 7 February 2003
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
Pages 272
eBook ISBN 9780429236792
Subjects Politics & International Relations
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Bollier, D. (2003). Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203821855
ABSTRACT
'They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose.' - Traditional nursery rhyme Until a 1998 federal court decision, a Minnesota publisher claimed to own every federal court decision, including Roe v. Wade and Brown v. Board of Education. A Texas c
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |11 pages
Introduction
part I|1 pages
The Commons, Gift Economies, and Enclosure
chapter 1|11 pages
Reclalnfiing the Narrative of the Commons
chapter 2|15 pages
The Stubborn Vitality of the Gift Economy
chapter 3|13 pages
When Markets Enclose the Commons
part II|1 pages
Varieties of Market Enclosure
chapter 4|10 pages
Enclosing the Commons of Nature
chapter 5|16 pages
The Colonization of Frontier Commons
chapter 6|13 pages
The Abuse of the Public's Natural Resources
chapter 7|20 pages
Can the Internet Commons Be Saved?
chapter 8|16 pages
The Privatization of Public Knowledge
chapter 9|12 pages
Enclosing the Academic Commons
chapter 10|16 pages
The Commercialization of Culture and Public Spaces
chapter 11|10 pages
The Giveaway of Federal Drug Research and Information Resources
part III|1 pages
Protecting the Commons
