radical decentralization Concepts

Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words

the mythology around Liechtenstein helps us to understand. It was not merely escape or exit in the negative sense but a fully formed philosophy of radical decentralization with secession as an ever-present option. The billionaire prince promoted his vision through the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, founded in Princeton with a

The Knowledge Economy

by Roberto Mangabeira Unger · 19 Mar 2019 · 268pp · 75,490 words

of the expression of personality in society. Those who use data for economic gain should win consent for their use and pay for them. The radical decentralization of property in data—a vital input of much of the knowledge economy—would encourage a wide range of varieties of compensation other than the

Democracy and Prosperity: Reinventing Capitalism Through a Turbulent Century

by Torben Iversen and David Soskice · 5 Feb 2019 · 550pp · 124,073 words

the computer would lead to mass deskilling and, in effect, the centralization of economic power (Braverman 1998). But in fact transformation has gone in a radically decentralized direction, as the individual console has put greater and greater computer power in the hands of the individual. Our approach is not technologically deterministic: it

Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism

by Peter Marshall · 2 Jan 1992 · 1,327pp · 360,897 words

the wave of libertarianism and pacifism in the fifties and sixties which formed part of the New Left in America. His advocacy of anti-militarism, radical decentralization, participatory democracy, and organic community also deeply influenced the counter-culture at the time. Goodman first proposed his alternative to the size, sprawl and bureaucracy

Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott · 9 May 2016 · 515pp · 126,820 words

maintenance. Others will swarm around a short-term problem, solve it, and dissolve just as quickly, having served their purpose. Is there a risk that radical decentralization and automation removes human agency in decision making (e.g., the risk of rogue algorithms)? “I am not concerned about machine intelligence. We will evolve

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

by Yochai Benkler · 14 May 2006 · 678pp · 216,204 words

sorts of loosely affiliated networks. My own emphasis is on the specific relative roles of market and nonmarket sectors, and how that change anchors the radical decentralization that he too observes, as a matter of sociological observation. I place at the core of the shift the technical and economic characteristics of computer

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networks and information. These provide the pivot for the shift toward radical decentralization of production. They underlie the shift from an information environment dominated by proprietary, market-oriented action, to a world in which nonproprietary, nonmarket transactional frameworks

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. Because of its focus around capital-intensive production and distribution techniques, this first stage might best be thought of as the "industrial information economy." 72 Radical decentralization of intelligence in our communications network and the centrality of information, knowledge, culture, and ideas to advanced economic activity are leading to a new stage

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also cooperate in similar loosely affiliated groups, without market signals or managerial commands, to build supercomputers and massive data storage and retrieval systems. In their radical decentralization and reliance on social relations and motivations, these sharing practices are similar to peer production of information, knowledge, and culture. They differ in one important

Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data

by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge · 27 Feb 2018 · 267pp · 72,552 words

the company is injecting a piece of market DNA into its structure. After all, decentralized decision-making is the hallmark of the market. Introducing such radical decentralization into a firm invites bits of the market inside. Spotify is an intriguing example of a firm intent on avoiding turning into a traditional firm

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman and Chris Fussell · 11 May 2015 · 409pp · 105,551 words

sharing fails, so does sharing without empowerment. Shared consciousness is a carefully maintained set of centralized forums for bringing people together. Empowered execution is a radically decentralized system for pushing authority out to the edges of the organization. Together, with these as the beating heart of our transformation, we became a single

Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise)

by Andrew L. Russell · 27 Apr 2014 · 675pp · 141,667 words

, “suggests waiting for problems to arise before solving them.”5 Two important points emerge from this new conventional wisdom that casts the Internet as a radically decentralized open system, capable of facilitating a new style of “organizing without organizations.” First, it indicates that Internet advocates, popular writers, and the general public have

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

by Howard Rheingold · 24 Dec 2011

government decides who uses spectrum for what purposes. I fear that the Soviet mentality will destroy innovation here. Instead of top-down control, we need radical decentralized opportunity to innovate and create using this medium. —Lawrence Lessig Unwiring the World, One Neighborhood at a Time I had heard übergeek friends rhapsodize about

The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations

by Sebastian Mallaby · 24 Apr 2006 · 605pp · 169,366 words

The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be

by Moises Naim · 5 Mar 2013 · 474pp · 120,801 words

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu · 2 Nov 2010 · 418pp · 128,965 words

Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age

by Steven Johnson · 14 Jul 2012 · 184pp · 53,625 words

Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)

by Salim Ismail and Yuri van Geest · 17 Oct 2014 · 292pp · 85,151 words

New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--And How to Make It Work for You

by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms · 2 Apr 2018 · 416pp · 100,130 words

Peer-to-Peer

by Andy Oram · 26 Feb 2001 · 673pp · 164,804 words

MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World

by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams · 28 Sep 2010 · 552pp · 168,518 words

Last Trains: Dr Beeching and the Death of Rural England

by Charles Loft · 27 Mar 2013 · 383pp · 98,179 words

The politics of London: governing an ungovernable city

by Tony Travers · 15 Dec 2004 · 251pp · 88,754 words

Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet

by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider · 14 Aug 2017 · 237pp · 67,154 words

Machinery of Freedom: A Guide to Radical Capitalism

by David Friedman · 2 Jan 1978 · 328pp · 92,317 words

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson · 26 Jun 2017 · 472pp · 117,093 words

Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street

by Jeff John Roberts · 15 Dec 2020 · 226pp · 65,516 words

Servant Economy: Where America's Elite Is Sending the Middle Class

by Jeff Faux · 16 May 2012 · 364pp · 99,613 words

Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World

by Jeffrey Tucker · 7 Jan 2015

Democracy Incorporated

by Sheldon S. Wolin · 7 Apr 2008 · 637pp · 128,673 words

Piracy : The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates

by Adrian Johns · 5 Jan 2010 · 636pp · 202,284 words

Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity From Politicians

by Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman · 21 Mar 2017 · 441pp · 113,244 words

Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse

by Adrian Wooldridge · 29 Nov 2011 · 460pp · 131,579 words

Hacking Politics: How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party, Gamers, Anarchists and Suits Teamed Up to Defeat SOPA and Save the Internet

by David Moon, Patrick Ruffini, David Segal, Aaron Swartz, Lawrence Lessig, Cory Doctorow, Zoe Lofgren, Jamie Laurie, Ron Paul, Mike Masnick, Kim Dotcom, Tiffiniy Cheng, Alexis Ohanian, Nicole Powers and Josh Levy · 30 Apr 2013 · 452pp · 134,502 words