What we may wish to create is a community based on bridging networks, not bonding them.

And we can create this economics around that great neglected sphere, the commons.

The commons is neither market nor state, capitalism nor communism, but it consists of three main elements: a particular resource; a particular community that manages that resource; and the rules and negotiations the community develops to manage it.

We can use new rules and methods of elections to ensure that financial power never trumps democratic power again.