Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons
Introduction
Foundations and the Theoretical Framework
Four Building Blocks
Markets Are Cultural and Rely on Knowledge Commons
Knowledge Commons Are Produced and Reproduced by Contributions and Sharing
Knowledge Commons Serve As Economic Inputs to New Production Processes
Entrepreneurship Has Social and Cultural Effects
Organization of the Book
References
1 The Contribution Good as the Foundation of the Industrial Revolution
1.1 Defining the Industrial Revolution
1.2 Modelling the Industrial Revolution
1.2.1 The Legacy of Nelson and Arrow
1.2.1.1 Tacitness
1.2.2 A Contribution Good Model of Technical Change
1.2.3 Some Related Perspectives
1.3 Governing Science as Contribution Good
1.4 The British Industrial Revolution in Relation to the Commercial and Scientific Revolutions
1.5 Chronology of the British Industrial Revolution
1.6 How Widespread Was Collective Invention?
1.7 International Comparisons
1.8 Conclusion
References
2 On the Social Evolution of Knowledge
2.1 Knowledge: The Product of Communal Effort Over Time
2.2 The Subsumption of Knowledge within the Concept of Capital
2.3 Different Views of Knowledge
2.3.1 Knowledge Is Not Separate from Artefacts, Practices, Laws and Institutions
2.3.2 Knowledge as Problem-Solving Activity
2.4 The Owl of Minerva?
2.5 Continuity, Revolution and the Difficulty of Prediction
2.6 Knowledge, Governance and Policy
2.7 Lagging Economies and the Transfer of Technology
2.8 The Innovation Ecosystem
References
3 Individual Sovereignty and Coproduction of Knowledge Governance
3.1 Knowledge Goods, Knowledge Governance, and Exchange Acts as Speech Acts
3.2 Individual Sovereignty, Speech Acts, and Territoriality
3.3 Non-geographic Communities, Power Relations, and the Cognitive and Communicative Foundations of Rules: Combining Elements of the IAD Framework
3.4 Constitutive and Regulative Rules as Coproductive Collective Action: Incorporating Searle's Social Ontology
3.5 Conclusion: Individual Sovereignty and Knowledge Content
References
4 Common Sense Commons: The Case of Commonsensical Social Norms
4.1 Defining Terms and the Scope of This Chapter
4.2 Common Sense as a Form of Social Infrastructure
4.3 Governance of Common Sense
Appendix
References
5 Conventions as Shared Cognitive Infrastructures
5.1 The Logic of Choice vs. Decision Making in the Face of Uncertainty
5.2 Coping with Uncertainty
5.3 The Behavioral Patterns of Learning Process
5.3.1 A Person Facing Uncertainty in Isolation
5.3.2 A Person Facing Uncertainty in a Group without Interaction
5.3.3 A Person Facing Uncertainty in a Group with Interaction
5.4 Conventions as Cognitive Infrastructure
5.4.1 Aesthetic, Coordinative, and Cooperative Interactions
5.5 Stability vs. Change
5.6 Process of Change
5.7 Concluding Remarks
References
6 Property Rights, Knowledge Commons, and Blockchain Governance
6.1 Blockchains, Property Rights, and Knowledge Commons
6.2 Towards More Robust Knowledge Commons
6.3 Conclusion
References
7 Knowledge Commons, Social Infrastructures, and Informal Markets: The Case of Informal Trade Credit in India
7.1 The Visible Story
7.2 The Invisible Infrastructure in the Story
7.2.1 The Nature of Product
7.2.2 Enabling Technology
7.3 Plugging the Story in a Framework
7.3.1 Community Attributes Folded in Culture and History
7.3.2 Salient Features and Rules
7.3.3 The Story Cast in the Modified-IAD Framework
7.4 Conclusion
References
8 Entrepreneurship and Governance in the Scotch Whisky Knowledge Commons
8.1 Scotch Whisky as a Knowledge Commons
8.1.1 Resource Characteristics
8.1.2 Attributes of the Community
8.1.3 Rules-in-Use
8.1.4 Valuable Commons or Rent-Seeking Scheme
8.2 New Entrepreneurial History of Scotch Whisky
8.3 Implications and Conclusion
References
9 Trolling in the Deep: Managing Transgressive Content on Online Platforms as a Commons
9.1 A Certain Idea of Transgression: Trolling on the 18-25
9.1.1 A General Presentation of the Forum and Its Business Model
9.1.2 From a Community of Gamers to a Community of Transgression: The Evolution of a Website
9.2 Shared References as a Tool of Tacit Moderation
9.2.1 Shared References as a Barrier to Entry: The Role of Hermeticism
9.2.2 Shared References as a Way to Prevent Disappearance of Content
9.3 In the Kingdom of Trolls, the Moderator Is King
9.4 Transgression Spaces in Society
9.5 Conclusion
References
10 Crowdfunding the Queer Museum: A Polycentric Identity Quarrel
10.1 The Story of the Queer Museum
10.1.1 The First Phase: Exhibition and Protests
10.1.2 The Second Phase: The Crowdfunding Campaign as an Alternative Strategy
10.2 The Identity Commons Resource and Its Infrastructure(s)
10.2.1 Identity Representation in Museums
10.2.2 Interpreting Identities as Cultural Commons
10.3 Making a Dispersed Museum: A Way toward Polycentricity
10.3.1 Using Online Infrastructures as a Shared Resource
10.3.2 An Open Institutional Space
10.4 Socially Governed Identities in the Public Arena
10.4.1 The QM as Arena of Contestation
10.4.2 Identity Contestation and Feedback
10.5 Conclusion
References
11 Understanding Different Qualities of the Knowledge Commons in Contemporary Cities
11.1 What Is Important to Cities in the New Economy?
11.2 A New Institutional Approach
11.2.1 Changing the Perspective with the Value-Based Approach
11.2.2 Shared Goods and Willingness to Contribute
11.2.3 The Commons within Contemporary Cities
11.2.4 Knowledge Commons and Shared Goods
11.3 Methods for Measuring the Qualities of Urban Commons
11.4 Empirical Methods for Characterising the Qualities of the Commons
11.4.1 Attributes of Jung-Gu, Seoul
11.4.2 Characteristics of Shared Goods in Jung-Gu
11.4.3 Attributes of Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
11.4.4 Characteristics of Shared Goods in Westergasfabriek
11.5 Conclusion
References