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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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Pablos Holman_How many peers does it take to change a light bulb?

Can we learn something about how the open source communities work? Could their collaborative way be somehow extrapolated into how we work in a ...
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Coordination Costs - P2P Foundation

Coordination Costs - P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

"Economists typically talk about “transaction costs” but I’m deliberately using the term “coordination costs”. Transactions (a la Coase) typically involve money, and certainly require at least contractual obligations. Coordination by contrast only depends on voluntary cooperation. Transaction costs will always be higher than coordination costs, because transactions require the ability to enforce the terms of the transaction. This imposes additional costs — often enormously larger costs.

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Tracing the constellation of actors in the peer econom

Tracing the constellation of actors in the peer econom | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

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Americans’ normative understanding of work is imploding. Throughout most of the twentieth century Americans equated landing a job to a lifetime of smooth sailing. In recent decades, faith in gainful employment has collapsed, and other models are emerging to fill the void. The peer economy is one such model.

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Can The Peer Economy Deliver Profits? - OPB News

Can The Peer Economy Deliver Profits? - OPB News | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Josh Gibbs normally wouldn’t leave his apartment in Northeast Washington, D.C., pick up a loaded pizza from a restaurant in Chinatown, bike to a complete stranger’s apartment, drop off the pizza and leave without any cash exchanging hands. But last week, he did just that. And truth be told, he kind of loved it.

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The Peer Economy Will Transform Work (or at Least How We Think of It)

The Peer Economy Will Transform Work (or at Least How We Think of It) | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The nature of work is changing, just as it has in the past.
Erika Watson's curator insight, December 19, 2013 5:42 AM

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Peer economy providers are also vulnerable but with a crucial factor that makes all the difference: They are a visible workforce, able to make these collective interests heard.

The economy of the future will not be the economy as it is now. The challenge before us is to reimagine what full work means, not based simply on how we’re used to conceiving of it, but based on a consideration of what we deem most valuable (independence, security, connectedness, etc.). "

Lays out the challenge but I'm not sure there is much sign that peer economy providers are either visible or beginning to make collective interests heard.  

The peer economy provides independence, and the contemporary increased security of diversity of income, connectedness. But that security still remains too fragile and shallow for most. 

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What Fan Culture Can Teach Us About the #PeerEconomy

What Fan Culture Can Teach Us About the #PeerEconomy | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Do you ever find a topic so fascinating that you're four entries deep before realizing you've gone down the Wikipedia wormhole? That's what my peer economy research expeditions feel like as I scour publications and interviews. I've stumbled upon the surprising history of property rights, technical definitions of firms and human capital, frameworks for worker cooperative networks, the push-pull between technological progress and socio-political arrangements, and more. In all of that, I find myself returning to three topics that are helping me understand the peer economy: the informal economy, the gift economy and fan cultures.

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Dale Dougherty_How many peers does it take to change a light bulb?

The maker culture might not be something totally new, but recently, and thanks to the advancements made in the technological sector, more and more people ...
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Five principles for regulating the peer production economy | R Street Institute | Free Markets. Real Solutions.

Five principles for regulating the peer production economy | R Street Institute | Free Markets. Real Solutions. | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Economic history over the last 200 years is largely the story of the industrial move from small-scale domestic production and piece work to systems dominated by economies of scale: factories, big businesses and multi-national corporations. But over just the past two decades, new technologies have radically altered this trend,disaggregating physical assets in space and time and employing digital platforms that allow for more individually tailored pricing, matching and exchange. Changes in the way we communicate and transact business have reduced economies of scale in some industries, shifting value to producers who have access to distributed capital.

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Possession - P2P Foundation

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"Peer production is based on commons and possession (not on property). Benkler talks about “commons-based peer production” to emphasize the important role of the commons (goods and resources without owners who can control how they can be used). Generally, commons such as free software and open knowledge play an important role as input or output (or both) of peer projects.

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The business of sharing - Management Today

The business of sharing - Management Today | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
From food to rooms to cars, people are increasingly renting out what they don't need. Will the 'peer economy' be able to hold its own in the face of mainstream opposition and legal busybodies?
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GeoCensos Mapps Hackathon, social solutions using mass ...

GeoCensos Mapps Hackathon, social solutions using mass ... | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Social networks platforms such as Facebook orTwitter are for a while in fashion. But they are just trends, only a sign of the times announcing something much bigger. Its true value is that they have driven a new era of crowdsourcing and mass collaboration. Hundreds, thousands, even millions of people can now work effectively - like never before - to achieve extraordinary results. Indeed, successes such as Wikipedia, YouTube, and Facebook are good examples of mass collaboration, a new and emerging paradigm.
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