Short bio

Vasilis Kostakis is political economist and founder of the P2P Lab. Currently he is senior research fellow at the Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, and collaborator of the P2P Foundation.

Selected publications

Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy (book). site wiki
Should Law Keep Pace with Technology? Law as Katechon site text
The (A)Political Economy of Bitcoin. text
Peer Production and Desktop Manufacturing: The Case of the Helix_T Wind Turbine Project. site text
Commons-Based Peer Production and Artistic Expression: Two Cases from Greece. site text
Information literacy and peer-to-peer infrastructures: An autopoietic perspective site text
From the Communism of Capital to Capital for the Commons: Towards an Open Co-operativism. text
A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Energy Production. site text
Commons-Based Peer Production and Digital Fabrication: The Case of a RepRap-Based, Lego-Built 3D Printing-Milling Machine. site text
Production and Governance in Hackerspaces: A Manifestation of Commons-Based Peer Production in the Physical Realm? site text
Open Source 3D Printing as a Means of Learning: An Educational Experiment in Two High Schools in Greece. site text
The Parody of the Commons. text
At the Turning Point of the Current Techno-Economic Paradigm: Commons-Based Peer Production, Desktop Manufacturing and the Role of Civil Society in the Perezian Framework. text
The Political Economy of Information Production in the Social Web: Chances for Reflection on our Institutional Design. text
Identifying and Understanding the Problems of Wikipedia’s Peer Governance. text
The Amateur Class, or, The Reserve Army of the Web. text