Peereconomy Category Introduction

What happens when most of the exchanges in an economy are happening between peers? How is such a thing measured or qualified?

This category of the wiki is where the collection of concepts that form the notion of the economy are looked into and worked on towards an understanding of what a Peereconomy is and how it operates.

The world is full of examples of trade and exchange that differ from the common conceptions of setting a price that the market will bear, and Peereconomy reaches into this space between individuals to shed light on the ways and means of people getting what they need. In many cases alternatives to Capitalism are seen as quaint and unworkable. The idea that complete disintermediation could be applied to the global economy is laughed at too often. This has very little do with the fact, though, that Peer Lending, Peer Banking, and a host of other Financial Services are becoming more common and better understood by the general public every day.

Peereconomy is about how these current project are working. How are these operating, real world services using P2P, and how are the participants learning new P2P behaviors that are helping them to cope with real world situations. ven if they don't know the person they are getting it from like a brother.

Some of the questions being addressed in Peereconomy

• On Exchange
  • What are some of the methods that peers use to perform transactions and exchanges?
  • What are the tools that Peers are using for exchange?
  • How does Peereconomy bring us closer to fair exchange?
  • What is Peereconomy to the Contribution Economy? Or the Coordination Economy? How are those they same or different?
• On Scale
  • What is the state of the Peereconomy now? Where is being used and what does it look like? What are the very best examples? Wy are they the best?
  • What's in store for the future? How will the Peereconomy progress towards being an option for more individuals?
  • How are Peers able to work together on national or international scales in the face of global competition?
  • Are there aspects of the Peereconomy that do not scale well or at all?
  • What does Protocol have to do with the Peereconomy?
  • Can the Peereconomy completely replace Capitalism? Is that a good idea?
• On Needs
  • Can complex physical goods really be produced in the Peereconomy?
  • How will the Peer experience differ in the Peereconomy?
  • Does the concept of Ownership change in the Peereconomy? How? How does this influence the concept of Peerproperty?
  • Are there needs that the Peereconomy cannot meet?
• On Specificity
  • What concepts need to be covered in the Peereconomy category?
  • How does the Peereconomy relate to Peerproduction? Are they the same thing? How are they different, and where do they overlap? And Peergovernance?

To place additional articles in this category, add the following to the bottom of your article:

<pre>[[Category:Peereconomy]]</pre>

Dedication

This category is dedicated to the work of Christian Siefkes. His efforts to help realize the future of Peereconomy are formulated in his book From Exchange to Contributions.