David Bollier


David Bollier is an American activist, writer, and blogger who is focused on the commons as a paradigm for re-imagining economics, politics, and culture. He is a director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, and is co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group, an international advocacy project.

Career

Bollier was founding editor of On the Commons, and now blogs at his own website. Bollier calls his work “exploring the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture.”
Bollier co-founded the Public Knowledge group in 2002 and served as a board member until 2010. He was awarded the 2012 Bosch Berlin Prize in Public Policy at the American Academy in Berlin. He collaborated with television writer/producer Norman Lear from 1985 to 2010 on political and public affairs projects, and worked with Ralph Nader in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Personal life

He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Books

  • The Commoner's Catalog for Changemaking: Tools for the Transitions Ahead
  • The Great Awakening: New Modes of Life Amidst Capitalist Ruins,
  • Free, Fair and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons
  • Patterns of Commoning
  • From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond: The Quest for Identity and Autonomy in a Digital Society
  • Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons"
  • Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights and the Law of the Commons"
  • The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State"
  • Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own
  • Ready to Share: Fashion and the Ownership of Creativity
  • Brand Name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture
  • Sophisticated Sabotage: The Intellectual Games Used to Subvert Responsible Regulation
  • Artists, Technology and the Ownership of Creative Content
  • Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth
  • Aiming Higher: 25 Stories of How Companies Prosper by Combining Sound Management and Social Vision.
  • The Great Hartford Circus Fire: Creative Settlement of Mass Disasters
  • ''Crusaders & Criminals, Victims & Visionaries: Historic Encounters Between Connecticut Citizens and the United States Supreme Court''