Category:Books
Books that relate to peer to peer; the open paradigm; and the Commons. Feel free to add your own reviews.
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The Top 20 Books on Peer to Peer
On [Peer Production]
The Wealth of Networks. Yochai Benkler.
Democratizing Innovation. Erik von Hippel.
The Wisdom of Crowds. James Surowiecki.
Capitalism 3.0. Peter Barnes.
In Progress
On Free and Open Source Software production and philosophy
The Success of Open Source. Steven Webber.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Eric Raymond.
Open Life. Henrik Ingo.
On P2P Management and Leadership
The Myth of Leadership. Jeffrey Nielsen.
The Hacker Ethic. Pekka Himanen.
The Play Ethic. Pat Kane.
On Political and Social Change
The Hacker Manifesto. McKenzie Wark.
Cyber Marx. Nick Dyer-Whiteford.
Protocol. How Control Exists after Decentralization. Alexander Galloway.
Code 2.0. Lawrence Lessig.
Also note:
Theory of Power. By Jack Vail.
Momentum. Allison H. Fine
On P2P Culture
Smart Mobs. Howard Rheingold
The Play Ethic. By Pat Kane.
Participatory Spirituality - A Farewell to Authoritarian Religion. By John Heron.
Hacker Ethic. Pekka Himanen.
Knowing Knowledge. George Siemens.
Open Culture and the Nature of Networks. Ed. by Felix Stalder.
Slow Living. Wency Parkins and Geoffrey Craig.
Understanding Knowledge as Commons. Eleanor Ostrom et al.
Other Recommended Books
Practical How To Books
Wireless Networking in the Developing World
Momentum (guide for social activists)
Also of note
The Alphabet versus the Goddess
Three Ways of Getting Things Done
Online Books, including books-in-progress
Participatory Spirituality - A Farewell to Authoritarian Religion. By John Heron.
We Think. Charles Leadbeater.
Older Classics that are available online
The Natural Economic Order. By Silvio Gesell.
The New State. Mary Parker Follet.
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While by no means identical to the P2P Foundation approach, this booklist on left-libertarianism is of interest, as it refers to traditions aiming to marry liberty and equality.
Pages in category "Books"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 3,266 total.
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A
- Abolishing Human Rentals and the Neo-Abolitionist Movement
- Abolition of Man
- Abstract Activism
- Abundance - The Future Is Better Than You Think
- Abundance Within Planetary Boundaries
- Abundant Community
- Abundant Energy Revolution
- Accelerate
- Access Controlled
- Access Denied
- Access Principle
- Access to Knowledge
- Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property
- Accounting Principles for a Participatory Economy
- Accursed Share
- Achieving Personal and Relational Coherence Through Enabling Constraints
- Acquisitive Society
- Action Leadership as a Participatory Paradigm
- Activating the Urban Commons Through Sharing Cities
- Active Hope
- Adam Smith in Beijing
- African Digital Commons
- African Ecological Ethics and Spirituality
- After Capitalism
- After Hegemony
- After the Future
- After the Internet
- After the Nation State
- After the Software Wars
- Aftermath
- Against Decolonisation
- Against Decolonization
- Against Intellectual Monopoly
- Against Oligarchy
- Against the Grain
- Against the Machine
- Against the Smart City
- Age of Empathy
- Age of Spiritual Machines
- Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- Age of the Gods
- Agenda for a New Economy
- Agents of Alternatives
- Agriculture in Urban Planning
- Agro-Ecological Approaches to Agricultural Development
- Alanna Hartzok on Why the Earth Belongs to Everyone
- Alasdair Roberts on the End of Protests
- Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek on Inventing the Future Based on Full Automation and a Universal Basic Income
- Alexander Douglas on the Philosophy Of Debt
- Alexander Galloway on Protocollary Power
- Alfred W. McCoy on the Difference Between Empires and World Orders
- Algorithmic Democracy
- Algorithmic Sustainable Design
- Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves
- Algorithms of Capital
- Algorithms of Oppression
- Algorithms of Resistance
- All Rise
- Almanaque Azul Panamá, Guía de Viajes/es
- Alone Together
- Alpha Lo on Gift Circles
- Alphabet versus the Goddess
- Alphabet vs. the Goddess
- Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies
- Alternative Food Geographies
- Alternative Internet
- Alternative Modes of Governance
- Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry
- Altruism and the Perception of a Common Humanity
- Ambient Commons
- Ambient Findability
- America beyond Capitalism
- America Beyond Capitalism
- American Awakening
- America’s Cultural Revolution
- Analysis of Financial Terrorism in America
- Anarchist Cybernetics
- Anarchist in the Library
- Anarchy as Order
- Anatomy of a Money-Like Informational Commodity
- Anatomy of Revolution
- Ancient City
- Andrew McAfee on Enterprise 2.0
- Andy Oram on the FLOSS Manuals Project
- Animals as Persons
- Anne Ryan on Enough is Plenty
- Annotated Bibliography on the Evolution of Civilization
- Anonymity in the Datified Society
- Another Future is Possible
- Another Production is Possible
- Anthrobscene
- Anthropological Trompe l’Oeil for a Common World
- Anthropology and the Economy of Sharing
- Anthropology of Economy
- Anthropology of Unequal Society
- Anti-Democratic Tradition in Western Thought
- Anti-Hobbesian Trilogy
- Anti-Tech Collective Library of Technology Criticism
- Anticapitalism and Culture
- Antifragile Things That Gain From Disorder
- Anton Hilckman on Feliks Koneczny and the Comparative Science of Civilization
- Anupam Chander on the Electronic Silk Road
- Applied Elite Theory
- Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain
- Aram Sinnreich on the Piracy Crusade
- Archaeology of Wealth Differences
- Architecture of Authority
- Architecture of Intention
- Architecture of Open Source Applications
- Architecture of Resistance
- Arizmendiarrieta’s Thought on Cooperative Man
- Army of Davids
- Art and Energy
- Art and the Working Class
- Art of Anonymous Activism
- Art of Community
- Art of Free Cooperation
- Art of Not Being Governed
- Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism
- Artistic Activism During Long 20th Century
- Artists Thinking about the Blockchain
- Ascent of Humanity
- Asian Cyberactivism
- Aspects of Truth
- Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity
- Assembly
- Assets in Common
- Associative Democracy
- At Home in the Universe
- At the Edge of History
- Atlas Of Commoning
- Atlas of Radical Cartography
- Atlas of Transformation
- Attention Merchants
- Augmented Urban Spaces
- Auroville Economy Book
- Authenticity
- Automatic Society
- Automating Inequality
- Automation and the Future of Work
- Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future
- Autonomy and Horizontalism in Argentina
- Autonomy and Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life
- Autopoiesis and Cognition
- Autopsy of an Island Currency
- Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods
- Awakening to an Ecology of the Commons
- Axel Bruns on Produsage
- Axemaker's Gift
B
- Babylon and Beyond
- Back in the Box
- Bald Ambition
- Bankrupting Nature
- Barefoot into Cyberspace
- Basic Income and Stakeholder Grants as Cornerstones for an Egalitarian Capitalism
- Basic Income, Labor, and the Idea of Post-Capitalism
- Basic Principles of War Propaganda
- Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth
- Before European Hegemony
- Before the State
- Before Writing
- Beginner’s Guide to Planning the Economy
- Beginning of History
- Being and Technology
- Bernard Lietaer on Money and Sustainability
- Bernard Lietaer on New Money for a New World
- Best Books on Low-Impact Local Food Systems
- Best of Instructables
- Best of Rhizome
- Better Be Running
- Better Without AI
- Beyond Adversary Democracy
- Beyond Civilization
- Beyond Cognitive Meritocracy
- Beyond Discipline
- Beyond Good and Evil Commons
- Beyond Marx
- Beyond Orientalism
- Beyond Our Control
- Beyond Plutocracy
- Beyond the Corporation
- Beyond the MOOC Hype
- Beyond the PLC
- Beyond the Profits System
- Beyond Western Economics
- Beyond WikiLeaks
- Bibliography of Remix Culture and Music
- Bibliography of the Commons
- Bibliography on Cooperative Universities
- Bibliography on Open Design and Distributed Manufacturing
- Bibliography on Peer Production
- Bibliography on Planetary Computation