Michel Bauwens is a theorist of civilizational transition, exploring a higher logic of societal structure that seeks to incorporate the positive functions of markets and states, without vesting the future in systems like capitalism or communism as normally understood.

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01:43 - Brief overview of traditional economics & political economy
05:40 - The Commons: a forgotten institution of society
11:45 - Cosmo-localism
15:45 - Commons economics & planetary boundaries
24:19 - Understanding Degrowth
31:16 - A higher logic of market, states and commons
42:53 - What is the common good?
45:25 - Spirituality, Osho, Masons, Templars, Somewheres, Anywheres & Identity
58:18 - Recapping the argument so far
01:00:30 - “What is the universal church today?”
01:12:04 - What Michel learned from the Masons, Rosicrucians, and Templars
01:16:42 - The priority for Commons activity today