Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- The State Also Rises: The Roots of Contemporary State Activism -- I Varieties of State Intervention -- 1 The Transformation of the British State: From Club Government to State-Administered High Modernism -- 2 The Forgotten Center: State...

How can we overcome the existing political, economic, and ecological crises that humanity faces? With the notion of the commons, Lukas Peter argues that this form of social organization can provide answers to the shortcomings of centralized states and open and competitive markets. By building on...