1Shared ownership as a key issue of Swiss history
Common-pool resources, common property institutions and their impact on the political culture of Switzerland from the beginnings to our days
Daniel Schläppi
These days we tend to advertise “commons” as counter projects to capitalism and state power. Switzerland has one of the highest concentrations of globally acting banks and corporations. It has a pole position in the competition for locational advantages. All the same, many very ancient “common property institutions” with partially medieval origins exist. It is astonishing and in need of explanation that so many cooperatives and an extreme political federalism have survived in Switzerland. Most of the ancient commons institutions not only ...
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