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The Wiki Way

Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham (authors��� web site: http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WelcomeVisitors)

(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 »

• August 14, 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).

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 »

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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).

online in full at Yale Law Yournal

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 »

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Economic Fundamentals of the Knowledge Society

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P. A. David and D. Foray. Published in Education, e-Journal 1(1): Special Issue: ‘Education and the Knowledge Economy,’ (Spring) 2003.

http://siepr.stanford.edu/papers/pdf/01-14.pdf.

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 »

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