Dedicated to the work of Siefkes, Christian, on a possible future organization of a peer to peer economy, formulated in his book, From Exchange to Contributions

Full text of the book is available via http://www.peerconomy.org/text/peer-economy.pdf

Key Resources

1. The book: Christian Siefkes. From Exchange to Contributions: Generalizing Peer Production into the Physical World.

Edition C. Siefkes, Berlin, 2007. ISBN 978-3-940736-00-0.

1. Central site from Christian Siefkes, at http://peerconomy.org/wiki/Main_Page

Presentation of his book

1. Towards an Economy of Contributions Part one
2. Towards an Economy of Contributions Part two

Selections from the P2P Foundation blog

1. Effort Sharing vs. Market Allocation
2. On the difference between a Peer Economy and a Market Economy
3. On Money and State Forms in the Peer Economy
4. On possession, not property, as the basis of the Commons
5. On Decision Making and Conflict Resolution in Material Peer Production
6. On Local Associations for Organizing Material Peer Production
7. On Distribution Pools
8. On Distributing Effort through Weighting Labor
9. On Hint-based Stigmergic Systems
10. Understanding Material Peer Production