Introduction

• Michel Bauwens:

1. The basic orientation of p2p theory towards societal reform: transforming civil society, the private and the state
2. To the Finland Station: the political approach of P2P Theory

Citations

"There have, certainly, been times and places when a kind of free market populism has emerged, where markets began operating independently of governments, at least to some degree – Medieval Islam is one famous example, and later, Ming China—but in such cases, they tended to operate in very different ways than the kind of markets we’re now familiar with, less about competition, much more about creating and maintaining relations of interpersonal trust, or for instance, profit-sharing operations instead of interest, etc etc."

- David Graeber [1]

Key Articles

• Matt Cropp: P2P-Driven Decline in Transaction Costs and the Coming Micro-Ownership Revolution