Guy Standing has held professorships at Bath, London and Monash Universities, was a programme director in the UN's International Labour Organisation and has advised many international bodies and governments on social and economic policies. He co-founded the Basic Income Earth Network and is now its co-president. He is author of the bestselling The Precariat- The New Dangerous Class (2011), Basic Income- And How We Can Make it Happen (2017) and Plunder of the Commons- A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth (2019).
Looking out of my window at the radiant blue of the Aegean Sea, I
surrender to the dream of a near future where Guy Standing's Blue
Commons proposals have been implemented - an indispensable blue
section of any genuine Green New Deal. It is a good dream, one that
deserves a shot at infecting our sad reality
*Yanis Varoufakis*
In this landmark book, Guy Standing not only documents how
state-corporate collusion is destroying fragile ocean ecosystems,
fisheries, and coastal communities. He explains how degrowth
economics and fishery commons could restore the 'Blue
Commons-Wealth' that belongs to all of us. The Blue Commons is at
once a brilliant synthesis, a searing analysis, and an inspiring
call to action
*author of The Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking*
Shines a bright light on the economy of the oceans, directing us
brilliantly towards where a sustainable future lies
*Danny Dorling*
Guy Standing writes with remarkable erudition, but also with
passion and lyricism about the Blue Commons. He commands the reader
to wake up to the threat posed by rentier capitalism's violent
policies for extraction, exploitation and depletion of that which
is both common to us all, but also vital to our survival: the sea
and all within it. He offers radical and hopeful alternatives to
the dominant economics for 'making a killing' from the
commodification of nature - giving hope to the dedicated stewards
of the seas - fishers and 'blue commoners' - but also to his
readers
*Ann Pettifor*
Few have illuminated the critical needs and shared responsibilities
of our oceans as well as Guy Standing in The Blue Commons
*Marc Benioff*
As capital sets its sights on the seas, our planet's final
frontier, the struggle for the commons becomes all the more urgent.
This is a powerful, visionary book - essential reading for all who
yearn for a better world
*Jason Hickel*
A powerful indictment of all that has gone wrong with contemporary
oceanic governance, and an inspiring account of how it can be put
right. Guy Standing shows how local communities can turn the tide
on neoliberal excess and put a vibrant and inclusive politics in
its place
*Chris Armstrong*
Standing makes an urgent case for a new politics of the ocean . . .
For anyone who has watched a David Attenborough documentary and
wished it made a clearer appeal for a change in ocean governance,
this is the book for you
*New Statesman*
In this important book, Guy Standing, always an original and
impassioned thinker, looks at the despoliation of the oceans by
overfishing, mining, waste and rising temperatures. The crisis he
outlines persuasively and in detail is the result of our
short-sighted and largely uncontrolled exploitation. Standing
offers radical ideas for creating new forms of common property. The
proposals are ambitious and arguably unrealistic. But the issues he
lays out are real and deeply concerning. We need good answers.
*Financial Times Best Economics Books of 2022*
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