Publications

The Synergies of Cooperatives and Open Source

Are cooperatives1 and open source projects2 and communities a natural fit? What are the similarities between the two? What is the difference between a traditional company that invest heavily in open source and the traditional products and services that are produced...

Harvestocracy

Harvesting the sharing economy Not all meritocracies are fair. New forms of meritocracies are emerging where ideas are harvested into an ownership hierarchy. This results in a system that lures participants into giving away assets that they would normally keep for...

Self-Organized Structures

The new way to work in the sharing economy Some professionals do not believe self-organized groups are possible or, if possible, efficient enough to endure as a valid corporate structure. Camazine et al.1 describe self-organization as: “... a process in which pattern...

Organic Strategy

The most difficult problems with organic groups are problems of strategy. The essence of strategy is making decisions that take into account other people's decisions. There are notable attempts at large group strategy that usually involve some variation of scenario...

On Fairness: A Primer on Fair Division

The problem of fairness, also known as the problem of fair division among game theorists, is a mix of psychology and strategy. A common intuition about fairness procedures is that every procedure can be 'gamed'. Another intuition is that fairness is too subjective to...

Decentralization of Control

The paradox of control lies in how giving it away can acquire more of it. Rather than acquiring and retaining control through normal means, decentralized and distributed control actually relinquishes control to the populace. While decentralizing pushes control...

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