The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
by Tim Wu · 4 Nov 2025 · 246pp · 65,143 words
Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2006). BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 3 Yochai Benkler, “Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and “The Nature of the Firm,” Yale Law Journal 112, no. 3 (2002). BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 4 As mentioned in the preamble to Part I. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 5
The Limits of the Market: The Pendulum Between Government and Market
by Paul de Grauwe and Anna Asbury · 12 Mar 2017
Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (London: Allen Lane, ). . Kenneth J. Arrow, ‘Gifts and exchanges’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, / (), pp. –. . Ronald Coase, ‘ The Nature of the Firm’, Economica, / (November ), pp. –. . See Frans de Waal, Our Inner Ape: The Best and Worst of Human Nature (London: Granta Books, ). See also Matt Ridley, The
Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science
by Michael Nielsen · 2 Oct 2011 · 400pp · 94,847 words
got me (and many others) interested in open source, and it remains well worth reading. Yochai Benkler’s insightful “Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm” [12] and The Wealth of Networks [13] have strongly influenced much thinking about open source, especially in the academic community. Finally, I recommend Ned Gulley
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conventional markets and conventional organizations: a related point has been made by the theorist Yochai Benkler in his article “Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm [12].” Benkler has a different focus, being concerned not so much with the solution of creative problems as with the production of goods. He proposes
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and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture. Boston: Nicholas Brealey, 2005. [12] Yochai Benkler. Coase’s penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm. The Yale Law Journal, 112:369–446, 2002. [13] Yochai Benkler. The Wealth of Networks. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. [14] Tim Berners-Lee
Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression
by Geoff Cox and Alex McLean · 9 Nov 2012
, “Modes of Creativity and the Register of Ownership,” 41. 43. Yochai Benkler, “Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm,” in Ghosh, Code, 169. He is referring to the economist Ronald Coase’s essay “The Nature of the Firm,” of 1937. 44. Michel Bauwens, “The Social Web and Its Social Contracts: Some Notes on Social Antagonism in
The Googlization of Everything:
by Siva Vaidhyanathan · 1 Jan 2010 · 281pp · 95,852 words
of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006). 20. Yochai Benkler, “Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm,” Yale Law Journal 112, no. 3 (2002): 369–446. 21. Daniel O. O’Connor and Henry Voos, “Laws, Theory Construction and Bibliometrics,” Library Trends 30
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
by Clay Shirky · 9 Jun 2010 · 236pp · 66,081 words
Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (New York: Harper, 2008). 119 commons-based peer production: Yochai Benkler, “Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm,” Yale Law Journal 112 (2002): 371-99. 120 Napster users could share a list of the songs: Spencer E. Ante, “Napster’s Shawn Fanning: The
What's Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption Is Changing the Way We Live
by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers · 2 Jan 2010 · 411pp · 80,925 words
to unload on a neighbor. The transaction costs to ensure they were kept in use, not in landfill, would have been high. In his paper “The Nature of the Firm,” economist and Nobel laureate Ronald Coase coined the term “transaction costs” to refer to the cost of making any form of exchange or participating in
State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century
by Francis Fukuyama · 7 Apr 2004
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Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism
by Robin Chase · 14 May 2015 · 330pp · 91,805 words
what had been raised in 2012.5 What is happening? The Internet has eliminated a key corporate competitive advantage. In 1937, in the influential essay “The Nature of the Firm,” British economist Ronald Coase wrote that the corporation was invented to do things that individuals and small companies couldn’t do. In particular, small companies
Liars and Outliers: How Security Holds Society Together
by Bruce Schneier · 14 Feb 2012 · 503pp · 131,064 words
in the Relative Importance of the Large Corporation in American Economic Life,” The American Economic Review, 21:10–42. Ronald Coase first Ronald Coase (1937), “The Nature of the Firm,” Economica, 4:386–405. Nick Leeson's Richard W. Stevenson (28 Feb 1995), “The Collapse of Barings: The Overview: Young Trader's $29 Billion Bet
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