Archive for August, 2005
Economic Fundamentals of the Knowledge Society
Author:
P. A. David and D. Foray. Published in Education, e-Journal 1(1): Special Issue: ‘Education and the Knowledge Economy,’ (Spring) 2003.
Available at:http://siepr.stanford.edu/papers/pdf/01-14.pdf.
Description:This article provides an introduction to fundamental issues in the development of new knowledge-based economies. After placing their emergence in historical perspective and proposing a theoretical framework Continue reading »
- 14th Aug, 2005
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’Sharing Nicely’: On shareable goods and the emergence of sharing as a modality of economic production
Author:
Yochai Benkler (First published in The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 114, pp. 273-358 (2002).
Available:online in full at Yale Law Yournal
Description:The paper offers a framework to explain large scale effective practices of sharing private, excludable goods. It starts with case studies of distributed computing and carpooling as motivating problems. Continue reading »
- 14th Aug, 2005
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Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm
Author:
Yochai Benkler (First published in the Yale Law Journal, Vol. 114, page 273 (2004).
Available:online in full at http://www.yale.edu/yalelj/112/BenklerWEB.pdf) Description: For decades our understanding of economic production has been that individuals order their productive activities in one of two ways: either as employees in firms, following the directions of managers, Continue reading »
- 14th Aug, 2005
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The Wiki Way

Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham (authors��� web site: http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WelcomeVisitors)
Description:(by Richard Dragon, posted at amazon.com): Suitable for system administrators or managers seeking an affordable content-management solution, The Wiki Way shows off how to take advantage of Wiki collaborative software, which allows users to post and edit content Continue reading »
- 14th Aug, 2005
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Freakonomics
Author:
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (book’s web site: http://www.freakonomics.com/)
Description:(by John Moe, posted at amazon.com): Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don’t need to be so mysterious: they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For Continue reading »
- 14th Aug, 2005
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Author:
Eric T. Raymond
Available at:access to almost the entirety of the evolving book: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
Description:(adapted from Raymond‚Äôs own summary, posted at http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_3/raymond/): Raymond anatomizes a successful open-source project that was run as a deliberate test of some surprising theories about software engineering suggested by the history of Linux. He discusses these Continue reading »
- 14th Aug, 2005
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The Long Tail
Author:
Chris Anderson
Available at:(article originally published in October 2004 Wired Magazine, available at http://www.surferzrule.com/z_artic_wired_long_tail2.html)
Description:(from Wikipedia article ‚ÄúLong Tail,‚Äù available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tail): The phrase “The Long Tail”, as a proper noun, was first coined by Chris Anderson. Beginning in a series of speeches in early 2004 and culminating with the publication Continue reading »
- 14th Aug, 2005
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Hal Varian’s Web Site
Available at:
(available at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/)
Description:contains links to numerous papers and articles dealing with the economics of information, information technology, information goods pricing, and market structures in today’s economy.
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Information Rules
Author:
Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian
Available at:(book’s web site with chapter themes and case examples from book available at http://www.inforules.com/)
Description:(from book‚Äôs web site at http://www.inforules.com/): Shapiro and Varian warn managers, “Ignore basic economic principles at your own risk. Technology changes. Economic laws do not.” Understanding these laws and their Continue reading »
- 14th Aug, 2005
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Free Culture
Author:
Lawrence Lessig
Available at:(book’s web site available at http://www.free-culture.cc/)
Description:(from book‚Äôs web site, available at http://www.free-culture.cc/about/): Lawrence Lessig‚Äôs focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. In Free Culture he widens his Continue reading »
- 14th Aug, 2005
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