From Exchange to Contributions: Generalizing Peer Production into the Physical World

Introduction......Page 9
Commons, Sharing, and Control over the Means of Production......Page 13
Free Cooperation......Page 14
From Status to Reputation......Page 15
How to Coordinate the Producer Side with the Consumer Side?......Page 17
How to Allocate Limited Resources and Goods?......Page 19
How to Find Others for Cooperation......Page 21
How to Obtain Contributions......Page 22
How to Ensure That Tasks Are Handled......Page 25
How to Assign Results of a Project......Page 31
Society as a Big Project or a Multitude of Projects......Page 41
Sharing Effort Between Projects: Distribution Pools......Page 42
Organizing Infrastructure and Public Services: Local Associations......Page 46
Coordinating Production: Prosumer Associations......Page 54
Resource Allocation......Page 62
Decision Making......Page 67
Differences from a Market Economy......Page 77
Differences from a Planned Economy......Page 88
Forms of Democratic Decision Making in Local Associations......Page 91
Stakeholder Involvement and Conflict Resolution......Page 95
Education and Learning......Page 99
Creative Works and Other Freely Sharable Goods......Page 101
Styles of Production......Page 104
How to Handle Contributions?......Page 109
How to Handle Effort?......Page 117
What About Migration?......Page 121
Won\'t There Be Need for Further Laws and Standards?......Page 124
Won\'t Such a Society Revert to a Market Economy?......Page 126
Aren\'t There Many Variants to the Proposed Model?......Page 128
Conclusion: The Development of a Peer Economy......Page 131
Bibliography......Page 137
Task Auctioning......Page 143
Product Auctioning......Page 146
Resource Auctioning......Page 149
Virtual Effort......Page 150