Three Miles of Rice Pudding

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Today’s societies harbour three flavours of utopia. For the current Western consumer capitalism I use the name ‘Privatopia’. This in turn promises a bright technological future - Cornucopia. For an alternative ecological future - I use Ecotopia.The book looks at the commons and considers three aspects - there’s common goods, there are acts of ‘commoning’ - the ‘gift economy’ - and there’s how we bring these two things together. Bringing the gift economy together with all that we might share in common leads to considerations of the economics of the commons and its governance systems.The book explores how all of the above aspects can be re-connected through story and proposes an alternative story for the future.

Tom Wallace

I hope that my books and stories will be thought-provoking. And if they are, I’d love to hear back from you! The books and stories are posted on a few different free websites, as well as places where a paperback version can be purchased. It would be great if you took a few moments to share your thoughts about a particular story or book. I’d be happy to hear from you and to answer any questions – it’s all about the conversation! I describe myself as an author and illustrator and my work can be found online at various sources under the title Artwork by Tom Wallace. Readers can find my Amazon author’s page, with links to the books in Kindle and paperback, here (USA): https://www.amazon.com/stores/Tom-Wallace/author/B0828988X5?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true And here (UK): https://www.amazon.com/Tom-Wallace/e/B0828988X5?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060 My short stories and some of my books can be read on the website Booksie. Follow the link here: https://www.booksie.com/users/tom-wallace-202564 And also via my Storywrite profile here: https://storywrite.com/abtw777 I have a blog site here: https://abtw777.blogspot.com/ On the blog site I post short essays, individual chapters from some books plus some stories that are written as memoirs (but are unlikely to be true!). Apart from writing, I draw and paint and do a little computer animation. I have a Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjSfgSXBLTJQrBAETwaqzQ?view_as=subscriber I live in Scotland, UK, in a small town near to Edinburgh.