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'''ARTICLES'''
'''ARTICLES'''
Increasingly, users are themselves distributing information about products and services that they appreciate, see the Wired article on a famous user-made iPod ad, at http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,66001,00.html? ; Companies are also learning to use (and abuse) these communities of 'passionate consumers', according to this report in Le Monde, at http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3230,36-396272,0.html
Thomas Malone on '''Coordination Theory''', at (http://www.dialogonleadership.org/Malone2001.html)
OPHI is a group of organizations and individuals dedicated to developing an on-line collection of knowledge about business processes that is freely available to the general public under an innovative form of "open source" licensing. More info at: http://ccs.mit.edu/ophi/index.htm
See for an overview of '''designing corporations around customer cultures''', at http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2005/nf2005037_4086.htm
'''Cognitive capitalism''': Yann-Moulier Boutang in  http://multitudes.samizdat.net/article.php3?id_article=1656 ; See also http://www.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/labo/walras/Objets/New/20021214/YMB.pdf
Self-organisation and cooperation in cognitive capitalism, special issue of Solaris magazine, at http://biblio-fr.info.unicaen.fr/bnum/jelec/Solaris/d05/5introduction.html , http://biblio-fr.info.unicaen.fr/bnum/jelec/Solaris/d05/5link-pezet.html
An explanation of the concept of the '''general intellect''', at  http://multitudes.samizdat.net/article.php3?id_article=476
On the concept of ‘worldwide public goods’, at http://www.upmf grenoble.fr/irepd/regulation/Lettre_regulation/lettrepdf/LR48.pdf ;
an overview of intellectual property regimes and their evolution, at http://www.upmfgrenoble.fr/irepd/regulation/Lettre_regulation/index.html
'''Changes in work culture''' are summarized quite well by 'work sociologist' Philippe Zafirian who outlines five of such changes, at http://seminaire.samizdat.net/imprim-article.php3?id_article=98
'''From disciplinary power to power by control and modulation''', by Philippe Zafirian
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/philippe.zarifian/page109.htm )
on the soul-destroying corporate cultures:
(http://pubpages.unh.edu/~jds/ )
David Isen on the inefficient nature of pyramidal intelligence:
(http://isen.com/archives/990601.html)
French 'sociologist of work', Philippe Zafirian, on the unease of workers in the contemporary enteprise, at (http://seminaire.samizdat.net/imprim-article.php3?id_article=98 )
Zafirian personal website: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/philippe.zarifian/)
See also these two important contributions on ‘the new nature of work’, 3 theses from Philippe Zafirian, based on seven years of study in large institutions and companies, at http://seminaire.samizdat.net/article.php3?id_article=22 3 thesis on work and cognitive capitalism, by Patrick Dieuaide, at http://seminaire.samizdat.net/article.php3?id_article=12
On the dissatisfaction of the workforce, French report, at (http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3234,36-377014,0.html)
On the '''hacker ethic''', by Richard Barbrook
(http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/hrc/theory/digitalArtisans/t.1.1.1 )
Open collaboration and productivity, (http://news.openflows.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/23/1518208 )
Proprietary vs. open source approaches, http://technologyreview.com/articles/05/06/issue/feature_linux.asp
'''Flexible involvement''', at (http://news.openflows.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/23/1518208 )
Programmers are interested in and motivated by personal development and the use value of the product, according to this survey: http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/lakhaniwolf.pdf
Why do people participate in open source projects, especially the less exciting 'mundane' tasks?, at http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/papers/opensource.PDF
Key essays by Yochai Benkler, on '''peer production and transaction costs''':
Coase’s Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm.
URL = http://www.yale.edu/yalelj/112/BenklerWEB.pdf
Sharing Nicely: On Shareable Goods and the Emergence of Sharing as a Modality of Economic Production.
URL = http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/114-2/Benkler_FINAL_YLJ114-2.pdf
Eben Moglen on the marginal cost of reproducing information:
(http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/maine-speech.html)
a web-based 'open source based' industrial design project:“ThinkCycle, is a Web-based industrial-design project that brings together engineers, designers, academics, and professionals from a variety of disciplines. (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/opensource.html)


'''Open Source Biology''', at (http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2724420)
'''Open Source Biology''', at (http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2724420)
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Laws of free software production, at (URL = http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_02/fud_based_encyclopedia/)
Laws of free software production, at (URL = http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_02/fud_based_encyclopedia/)


See the report, “Poor because of by the Strohalm Foundation http://www.strohalm.nl/data/uploads/16.htm  
See the report, “Poor because of Money" by the Strohalm Foundation http://www.strohalm.nl/data/uploads/16.htm  


Bernard Lietaer on '''the artificial scarcity of the present money system'''
Bernard Lietaer on '''the artificial scarcity of the present money system'''

Latest revision as of 05:56, 25 September 2007

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Old Introduction

In the meantime, we recommend you also consult the following tags in the social bookmarking site Delicious

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2) P2P-Money, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Money

3) P2P-Business, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Business

4) Open Source Commercialization, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/Open-Source-Commercialization

5) P2P-Capitalism, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Capitalism

6) P2P-Production, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Production

7) P2P-Advertising, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Advertising

8) P2P-Property, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Property

and many other appropriate tags at http://del.icio.us/mbauwens


ARTICLES

Open Source Biology, at (http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2724420)

Open Source Biotechnology in Agriculture, at (http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/views/story/0,4574,144880,00.html)

Open Source Architecture. More in the article, ‘towards an architectural open source practice, at http://www.archis.org/archis_old/english/archis_art_e_2003/art_3b_2003e.html and see also the blog http://www.suite75.net/blog/maze/. In the New York Times Magazine, David Brooks has written an interesting article describing the development of exurbia, a move beyond the suburbs that seems to exhibit P2P principles, see http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/04/magazine/04EXURBAN.html?th .

The Open Source Metaverse, at(http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,65865,00.html?)

The importance of mental transaction costs, and why it works against micromoney schemes, and on the fame vs. fortune dilemma now facing creators, at (http://shirky.com/writings/fame_vs_fortune.html)

Yochai Benkler on user-capitalisation, (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_25/b3938902.htm)

Laws of free software production, at (URL = http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_02/fud_based_encyclopedia/)

See the report, “Poor because of Money" by the Strohalm Foundation http://www.strohalm.nl/data/uploads/16.htm

Bernard Lietaer on the artificial scarcity of the present money system (http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/book/4-09-Interest_and_Self-Interest.html)

The P2P aspects of Open Money systems: The dedicated site is OpenMoney.org. TheTransitioner.org and OpenMoney.org are closely working together. TheTransitioner.org handles interactive community discussions and live projects, whereas OpenMoney.org possesses all material about it (technical, definitions, former papers, etc).(http://www.thetransitioner.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Open+Money)

Margret Kennedy, complementary currencies expert, at (www.margritkennedy.de); See also information on the above author at http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~roehrigw/kennedy/english/

Justification of the universal wage, short French-language intro by Gilbert Boss, at http://www.gboss.ca/revenu_universel.htm

The Sharing Economy, essay at http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/114-2/Benkler_FINAL_YLJ114-2.pdf

Interview of the author Yochai Benkler by Business Week, at http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_25/b3938902.htm ;

ThinkCycle, is a Web-based industrial-design project that brings together engineers, designers, academics, and professionals from a variety of disciplines. (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/opensource.html)

Innocentive, at http://www.innocentive.com/, is a web-based community matching 80,000 independent scientists (the "solvers") to relevant R&D challenges facing leading companies (the "seekers") from around the globe:(from http://www.primidi.com/2005/06/11.html )

An evolutionary scheme for economics, by Wim Nusselder, see http://www.antenna.nl/wim.nusselder/schrijfsels/economics.htm

Coordination defined by Philippe Zafirian, at (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/philippe.zarifian/page122.htm) The evolution of cooperation:“Evolution's Arrow also argues that evolution itself has evolved. Evolution has progressively improved the ability of evolutionary mechanisms to discover the best adaptations. And it has discovered new and better mechanisms. The book looks at the evolution of pre-genetic, genetic, cultural, and supra-individual evolutionary mechanisms. (http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/Review_Complexity.pdf)

Free sharing as an aspect of civilisation-building, at (http://www.peripheries.net/g-sagot1.htm )

Cooperation studies are well monitored by by Howard Rheingold and and a whole team of collaborators at the Smartmobs.com weblog.

Here's a summary of cooperation theories maintained by Paul Pivcevic of the http://www.cooperativeintelligence.org/ website.

Book on the history and future of money, (http://www.thememorybank.co.uk/ )


The Open Money project at (http://www.openmoney.org/

Some other complementary currency initiatives: LIBRA project (Milan, Italy), http://www.aequilibra.it/; Banca Etica (Padova, Italy), http://www.bancaetica.com/; Chiemgauer (Bavaria, Germany), http://www.chiemgauer.info/ ; WIR Bank (Switzerland), http://www.wir.ch/

Learning about monetary reform: Dr. Margrit Kennedy at http://www.margritkennedy.de/ . one of the leading figures in this field as she published "Interest and Inflation-free Money"(the whole text is available in English at: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~roehrigw/kennedy/english/)

A page devoted to ‘alternative economy’ topics, also listing the alternative currencies in Japan, at http://www3.plala.or.jp/mig/econ-uk.html, and on Argentina’s RGT, the world’s biggest non-money barter network

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