A full list of STWR’s publications as well as related news, articles and blogs can be found below.
Reclaiming the ‘real’ sharing economy
Article / 20th April 2015What does it actually mean ‘to share’? This might seem like an obvious question, but the concept of sharing is increasingly being debated, discussed and redefined in our modern age of rapid technological change and planetary crises.
From basic income to social dividend: sharing the value of common resources
Article / 18th March 2015It’s time to broaden the debate on how to fund a universal basic income by including options for sharing resource rents, which is a model that can be applied internationally to reform unjust economic systems, reduce extreme poverty and protect the global commons.
Reflections on the future of the sharing economy
Blog / 3rd March 2015At a time when inequality is on the rise and nations are failing to reduce global carbon emissions, what does the future hold for the sharing economy movement unless it mobilises to reform government policies that are the root cause of climate change and socio-economic exclusion?
After the great Piketty debate
Article / 3rd March 2015If de-growth on a global level is inevitable sooner or later – and there is enough evidence to suggest that it is – then the implications go far beyond Piketty’s solutions for how we can achieve a just and sustainable world.
A new social settlement for a sharing society
Blog / 20th February 2015The latest phase of research from the New Economics Foundation proposes a new framework of ideas that are all premised on the need for a more equal and sharing society, one that “serves the interests of people and the planet, not the other way around”.