David Bollier

David Bollier is an American activist, writer, and policy strategist.[1] He is co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group,[2] Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication,[3] and writes technology-related reports for the Aspen Institute. Bollier collaborated with television writer/producer Norman Lear on a variety of non-television, public affairs projects from 1985 to 2010.

David Bollier
David Bollier, 2007
Occupationactivist, writer, and policy strategist
Website
www.bollier.org

Bollier was founding editor of On the Commons (2003-2010), and now blogs at his own website, Bollier.org. Bollier calls his work “exploring the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture.”[4]

Bollier co-founded the public interest group Public Knowledge 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.[5]

Books
  • Free, Fair and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons (with co-author Silke Helfrich) (New Society Publishers, 2019, ISBN 978-0865719217)
  • Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons" (New Society Publishers), 2014)
  • Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights and the Law of the Commons" (with co-author Burns H. Weston) (Cambridge University Press), 2012)
  • The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State" (with co-editor Silke Helfrich) (Levellers Press, 2012)
  • Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (New Press, 2009)
  • Ready to Share: Fashion and the Ownership of Creativity (Lear Center Press, 2006)
  • Brand Name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture (John Wiley & Sons, 2005)
  • Sophisticated Sabotage: The Intellectual Games Used to Subvert Responsible Regulation (with Thomas McGarity and Sidney Shapiro; Environmental Law Institute, 2004)
  • Artists, Technology and the Ownership of Creative Content (Norman Lear Center, 2003)
  • Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth (Routledge, 2002)
  • Aiming Higher: 25 Stories of How Companies Prosper by Combining Sound Management and Social Vision. (AMACOM, 1996)
  • The Great Hartford Circus Fire: Creative Settlement of Mass Disasters (Yale University Press, 1991)
  • Crusaders & Criminals, Victims & Visionaries: Historic Encounters Between Connecticut Citizens and the United States Supreme Court (Connecticut Attorney General, 1986)

References
  1. "Reclaiming the Commons". Boston Review. 2002. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  2. "David Bollier". Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  3. "Senior Fellow David Bollier". Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  4. David Bollier: About.
  5. American Academy in Berlin: Berlin Prize Fellows. Archived 2013-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
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