personal notepad for a research project on the collaborative economy

Distinctions between market areas

Distinguish between:

- the market for things / objects

- the market for labor / people / services

- the market for ideas / innovations

- the market for money

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Platform ownership

- owned by shareholders / for-profit

- ethical economy forms?

- owned by producers

- public ownership

- from the market

- from civil society directly

- public funding

- mutualizing a collective resource (commons, but can be privately owned)

- sharing with/from each other (peer to peer, from individual to individual)

- finding value in immaterial achievements

- from ownership to access

- revolt against idleness and waste

- trust in the commons

- against the neutrality of the market, repersonalizing economic ties

- desire for ethics in the market

- desire for participation and co-design

- trusting peers rather than institutions

- ability for p2p communication

- ability for implementing digital commons and platforms

- trust with strangers

- transparency / holoptism

- aligning personal and collective aims and interests