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Fixed: Why Personal Finance is Broken and How to Make it Work for Everyone

by John Y. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai  · 25 Jul 2025

duty (with a steep escalation for higher-priced properties), and in Mumbai, stamp duty and associated fees amount to 6% of the registered purchase price. Transaction costs this high make rental accommodation much cheaper for anyone who expects to move within a couple of years. As a related point, owning a home

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in turn means that every dollar some investor earns through active investing, some other active investor must lose a dollar—even before accounting for the transactions costs active investors must pay to trade, which amplify losses and reduce gains. This inescapable mathematical fact is sometimes called the iron law of active investing

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concluded, when their stocks went up, that their lucky streak was evidence of their investing prowess.26 But individual investors who trade actively and pay transactions costs to do so are likely to be on the losing side of the iron law, not the winning side, and their prospects are particularly poor

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. We believe these products should be mandatory to offer, but people should not be required to use them. Small loans can be cheap only when transaction costs are low and lenders can see that borrowers are highly likely to repay. This requires a combination of technology and data. Technology makes it possible

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household’s tolerance for risk, the ability to invest small contributions into the fund in a coordinated fashion across contributing households in order to minimize transactions costs, and possibly penalties for rapid withdrawals in order to prevent inefficient trading. One might imagine that funds for retirement saving could include illiquid assets such

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back down. The 2023 movie Dumb Money is indeed appropriately titled. 28. Russ Wermers, “Mutual fund performance: An empirical decomposition into stock-picking talent, style, transactions costs, and expenses,” Journal of Finance 55 (2000): 1655–1695. 29. See Diane Del Guercio and Jonathan Reuter, “Mutual fund performance and the incentive to generate

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emergency savings in, 82–83; low-deductible health insurance in, 144–145; Pell Grants in, 101; prevalence of financial vulnerability in, 83, 84; real estate transaction costs in, 113; real returns on higher education in, 102–106, 103; refinancing in, 120–121; Sharpe ratio for stock market in, 132; shift from defined

Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business

by David G. W. Birch and Victoria Richardson  · 28 Apr 2024  · 249pp  · 74,201 words

later. As well as making peer-to-peer payments easier, this approach would enable smoother consumer transactions, all the while maintaining the security and lower transaction costs that will make the metaverses more appealing transaction spaces for innovation. With Amazon Anywhere already out of the gate, with its high

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transaction costs and traditional payment fraud, the race is on. In addition to digital money, of course, metaverses need digital identity to move beyond being mere virtual

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on Ethereum, Axie Infinity later migrated to Ronin, a permissioned Ethereum-compatible sidechain developed by Sky Mavis. This migration aimed to enhance scalability and reduce transaction costs. Hindsight’s perfect vision now claims this migration as a fatal error, because in March 2022 Axie Infinity faced a major hack, which resulted in

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ledgers). Asset stablecoins Such ‘asset-backed’ stablecoins emerged early in the evolution of the space because market participants found it difficult to manage and minimize transaction costs with volatile means of exchange. It is important to note, however, that not all such assets were actually stable. The death spiral of the Terra

Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead

by Kenneth Rogoff  · 27 Feb 2025  · 330pp  · 127,791 words

’s cheaper to use the dollar as a “vehicle currency” for, say, converting Canadian dollars to Australian dollars than to swap the two directly. The transaction costs of the two trades (Canadian to U.S. dollars, then U.S. to Aussie dollars) are less than those of the direct trade. A mind

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the United States has the deepest and most dynamic financial markets. This makes U.S. Treasury debt very easy to sell quickly and without excessive transaction costs; that is, U.S. debt is very liquid. It is also very safe, at least in the literal sense of getting repaid dollar for dollar

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

chapters to come, we shall see how that played out, starting with the very first computing platform worthy of the name. Skip Notes *1 Lowering transaction costs, in other words. Readers with a background in economics will recognize that this is a point similar to that made in Oliver Williamson’s

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Transaction Cost Economics. However, Williamson largely focused on the advantages that an integrated firm might have, as opposed to the reduction of transaction costs between unrelated parties. *2 “Network effects” (or externalities) refers to the idea that a network

The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory

by Kariappa Bheemaiah  · 26 Feb 2017  · 492pp  · 118,882 words

technology (PwC, 2016), the remainder are taking bold steps to inculcate this technology for obvious reasons. Studies by Goldman Sachs estimate that Blockchain could reduce transaction costs in underwriting insurance by $2–$4 billion, just in the US. By applying Blockchain to streamlining clearing and settlement of cash securities (equities, repo, and

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are - (i) wage negotiations are costly in time for both workers and firms; the longer the period of the contract, the less frequently are these transaction costs incurred; (ii) negotiations may fail and workers may resort to strike action in order to improve their bargaining position; and (iii) if the firm lowers

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are, however, lower than these menu costs. By engaging in “near-rational behaviour” these firms deviate from the optimal price (wage) setting. and reduce their transaction costs associated with searching information about demand (labor supply) changes. In such case, profit losses caused by deviations of prices (wages) from their optimal value can

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be offset by reductions of their transaction costs. Such behaviour cab be optimal from the firm’s perspective but causes significant losses of aggregate output and employment. The extensive use of DSGE models

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. This hesitation to form links based on lack of trust has been extensively studied in the field of transaction cost theory (also called new institutional economics) which was developed by Ronal Coase in 1937. Transactional cost theory (TCT) is the branch of economics that deals with the costs of transactions and the institutions that

The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise

by Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher  · 1 Dec 2009

initiatives (customer features) over time. We recommend measuring the cost of scale as both a percentage of total engineering spending and as a cost per transaction. Cost of scale as a percentage of engineering time should go down over time. But it’s easy to “game” this number. If in year 1

The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid

by C. K. Prahalad  · 15 Jan 2005  · 423pp  · 149,033 words

. 3. The ICICI-supported SHGs take it one step further. They start with understanding the rationale for the contacting system: how and why it reduces transaction costs and therefore reduces the cost of capital as well as increases access to capital. Further, governance cannot be just between ICICI and the individual. By

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transactions and the ability to enforce commercial contracts. This is about reducing uncertainty as to ownership and transfer of ownership. Transparency in the process reduces transaction costs. Clearly developed laws, transparent microregulations, social norms, and timely and uniform enforcement are all part of TGC. My argument is that TGC is more important

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. The reasons include the high cost of small transactions, the lack of traditional collateral, geographic isolation, and simple social prejudice. “According to Mahajan,14 the transaction costs of savings in formal institutions were as high as 10% for the rural poor. This was because of the small average size of transactions and

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and of village dynamics allows him to The ITC e-Choupal Story: Profitable Rural Transformation 333 accurately assess and manage risk. Second, he reduces overall transaction costs by aggregating services. The linked transactions reduce the farmer’s overall cost in the short term, but create a cycle of exploitive dependency in the

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100 Figure 5 Cost comparison between the mandi and e-Choupal. are now down to 2.5 percent. Figure 5 shows the breakdown of the transaction costs incurred by the farmer and ITC per metric ton of soyabeans procured in the mandi and e-Choupal. Compared to the mandi operation, the farmer

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holdings and transactions. This database can be used as a source of creditworthiness profiles of the farmers. ■ Transaction and administration costs. For major financial institutions, transaction costs in servicing the rural market have been high because of the difficulty in reaching the market. By leveraging the IT infrastructure and the sanchalak network

J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2014

by J. K. Lasser  · 5 Oct 2013  · 1,845pp  · 567,850 words

) interests under existing leases of tangible property; (7) interests under existing indebtedness; (8) sports franchises; (9) certain residential mortgage servicing rights; and (10) certain corporate transaction costs. Loss limitations A person who disposes of an amortizable Section 197 intangible at a loss and at the same time retains other Section 197 intangibles

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

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

Value-Added Distribution Sharing of Processing, Storage, and Communications Platforms Chapter 4 - The Economics of Social Production Motivation Social Production: Feasibility Conditions and Organizational Form Transaction Costs and Efficiency The Emergence of Social Production in the Digitally Networked Environment The Interface of Social Production and Market-Based Businesses Part Two - The Political

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their own game. And yet, this is precisely what is happening in the software world. 120 Industrial organization literature provides a prominent place for the transaction costs view of markets and firms, based on insights of Ronald Coase and Oliver Williamson. On this view, people use markets when the gains from

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doing so, net of transaction costs, exceed the gains from doing the same thing in a managed firm, net of the costs of organizing and managing a firm. Firms emerge when

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the opposite is true, and transaction costs can best be reduced by [pg 60] bringing an activity into a managed context that requires no individual transactions to allocate this resource or that

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October 30, 2002). Part One: The Networked Information Economy 182 Chapter 4 The Economics of Social Production Motivation Social Production: Feasibility Conditions and Organizational Form Transaction Costs and Efficiency The Emergence of Social Production in the Digitally Networked Environment The Interface of Social Production and Market-Based Businesses 183 The increasing salience

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or firms to feed and clothe ourselves, or through social relations and open communication with others, to give our lives meaning and context. 208 Transaction Costs and Efficiency 209 For purposes of analyzing the political values that are the concern of most of this book, all that is necessary is that

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nonproprietary strategies, between marketbased systems--be they direct market exchange or firm-based hierarchical production--and social systems, are the comparative transaction costs of each, and the extent to which these transaction costs either outweigh the benefits of working through each system, or cause the system to distort the information it generates so as

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proper channels of authority says that she needs it. Comparing and improving the efficiency of (a) and (b), respectively, has been a central project in transaction-costs organization theory. We might compare, for example, the costs of taking my call, verifying the credit card information, and sending a delivery truck for my

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weekend, or in a sparsely populated area. 213 The point is not, of course, to reduce all social relations and human decency to a transaction-costs theory. Too many such straight planks have already been cut from the crooked timber of humanity to make that exercise useful or enlightening. The point

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aimed at producing precisely this form of self-identification. However, the rigidities associated with collecting and comprehending bids from individuals through these systems (that is, transaction costs) limit the efficacy of self-identification by comparison to a system in which, once an individual self-identifies for a task, he or she can

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clickworkers. The prevalence of misperceptions that individual contributors have about their own ability and the cost of eliminating such errors will be part of the transaction costs associated with this form of organization. They parallel quality control problems faced by firms and markets. 219 The lack of crisp specification of who is

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giving what to whom, and in exchange for what, also bears on the comparative transaction costs associated with the allocation of the second major type of scarce resource in the networked information economy: the physical resources that make up the networked

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different economic explanation. However, the sharing of these material resources, like the sharing of human creativity, insight, and attention, nonetheless relies on both the comparative transaction costs of markets and social relations and the diversity of human motivation. 220 Personal computers, wireless transceivers, and Internet connections are "shareable goods." The basic intuition

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to perform about eighty operations per second. Every owner, in other words, has twenty operations of excess capacity every second. Now imagine that the marginal transaction costs of arranging a sale of these twenty operations--exchanging PayPal (a widely used low-cost Internet-based payment system) account information, insurance against nonpayment, specific

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statement of how much time the computer can be used, and so forth--cost ten cents more than the marginal transaction costs of sharing the excess capacity socially. John wants to render a photograph in one second, which takes two hundred operations per second. Robert wants to

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distributed in small dollops, social sharing can outperform secondary markets as a mechanism for harnessing that excess capacity. This is so because of both transaction costs and motivation. Fewer owners will be willing to sell their excess capacity cheaply than to give it away for free in the right social context

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and the transaction costs of selling will be higher than those of sharing. 224 From an efficiency perspective, then, there are clear reasons to think that social production

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relationships all of the time. It does mean that alongside our market-based behaviors we generate substantial amounts of human creativity and mechanical capacity. The transaction costs of clearing those resources through the price system or through [pg 116] firms are substantial, and considerably larger for the marginal transaction than clearing them

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the autonomy deficit of privately owned communications infrastructure, for familiar reasons. The most familiar constraint on the "market will solve it" hunch is imposed by transaction costs--in particular, information-gathering and negotiation costs. Influence exactions are less easily homogenized than prices expressed in currency. They will therefore be more expensive to

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on the one hand, the classical Marxist claim that law is epiphenomenal, and, on the other hand, the increasingly rare simple economic models that ignore transaction costs and institutional barriers and simply assume that people will act in order to maximize their welfare, irrespective of institutional arrangements. Second, the causal relationship between

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296, 355-358, 702 processing (computational), 167-168, 175 radio sharing, 711-712 securing, 806 sharing, 166-181, 221-224, 297, 620-622 storage, 175 transaction costs, 218-223 Capital for production, 21-22, 73, 89, 120, 195, 216, 309 control of, 195-196 cost minimization and benefit maximization, 89 fixed and

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initial costs, 216 production costs as limiting, 309 transaction costs, 120 Carey, James, 256 Carriage requirements of cable providers, 707-708 Castells, Manuel, 41, 41, 48, 642 Cejas, Rory, 261-262, 271 Censorship, 477-

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, 695 security-related policy, 146-148, 803-807 shift away from, 31-33 stakes of information policy, 808-829 structure of mass media, 327-330 transaction costs, 120, 208-224 Commercial press, 341-343, 363 Commercialism, undermining political concern, 355, 366-375 Common-carriage regulatory system, 301 Commons, 59, 61, 120-

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, working around, 473-480 capacity of, 108-112 feasibility conditions for social production, 194-207 pricing, 217 thickening of preexisting relations, 631 through performance, 367 transaction costs, 218-223 university alliances, 598-604, 613-618 Communication diversity, 385 See diversity communication tools, 385-393 Communities, 40, 41, 50, 67, 139, 149,

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67-76 virtual, 630-639 Community clusters, 245, 297 communications infrastructure, 297-300 market and nonmarket producers, 245-246 Computational capacity, 167-168, 175, 218 transaction costs, 218-223 Computer gaming environment, 149-150, 263 Computers, 206, 220, 294, 718 as shareable, lumpy goods, 220-222 infrastructure ownership, 294-295 policy on

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89, 120, 195, 216, 309 control of, 195-196 cost minimization and benefits maximization, 89 fixed and initial costs, 216 production costs as limiting, 309 transaction cost, 120 Constraints of information production, physical, 16-17 Constraints on behavior, 364 See autonomy, freedom consumer demand for information, 364 Consumer surplus, 249, 262 See

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, 729-736 DSL, 543 see broadband networks dumb luck, justice and, 543-545 Daily newspapers, 85 DailyKos.com site, 398 Data storage capacity, 175, 218 transaction costs, 218-223 Database Directive, 788-789 Database protection, 787-790, 791 trespass to chattels, 791-795 Davis, Nick, 398-399, 445, 464 Dawkins, Richard,

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100-104, 114-117 production of computer networks, 105-112 Economics of nonmarket production, 120, 182-250, 208, 225 emergence in digital networks, 225-243 transaction costs, 120, 208-224 Edelman, Ben, 477 Editorial filtering, 365 See relevance filtering editorial vs. business decisions, 365 Educational instruction, 562, 582 Efficiency of information regulation

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security-related policy, 146-148, 695, 803-807 shift away from, 31-34 stakes of information policy, 808-829 structure of mass media, 327-330 transaction costs, 120, 208-224 Inefficiency of information regulation, 79-87, 100-104, 208-224, 221, 291, 571, 810-813 capacity reallocation, 221-224 property protections,

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89, 120, 195, 216, 309 control of, 195-196 cost minimization and benefit maximization, 89 fixed and initial costs, 216 production costs as limiting, 309 transaction costs, 120 Information production economics, 77-117, 88, 100, 105, 114 current production strategies, 88-99 exclusive rights, 100-104, 114-117 production over computer networks

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83, 95, 120, 208, 244, 522, 529, 613 cultural change, transparency of, 522-526 mass popular culture, 529-530 relationship with social producers, 244-250 transaction costs, 120, 208-224 universities as, 613-616 without property protections, 83-87, 95-99 Information sharing, 175, 216, 218, 294 infrastructure ownership, 294 initial costs

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, 216 transaction costs, 218-223 Information, defined, 71, 559-560 Information, perfect, 364 Information-embedded goods, 556-558 Information-embedded tools, 558 Innovation, 37, 291, 586, 764

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security-related policy, 146-148, 695, 803-807 shift away from, 31-34 stakes of information policy, 808-829 structure of mass media, 327-330 transaction costs, 120, 208-224 International HapMap Project, 621 International harmonization, 796-801 Internet, 377, 385, 416, 423, 429, 437, 448, 473, 515, 528, 535, 654,

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208, 244, 522, 529, 529, 613 cultural change, transparency of, 522-526 mass popular culture, 529-530, 529-530 relationship with social producers, 244-250 transaction costs, 120, 208-224 universities as, 613-616 without property protections, 83-87, 95-99 Marshall, Josh, 398, 445, 470 Marx, Karl, 274, 505 Mass

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89, 120, 195, 216, 309 control of, 195-196 cost minimization and benefit maximization, 89 fixed and initial costs, 216 production costs as limiting, 309 transaction costs, 120 Money, 89, 187, 214, 309, 420, 462 as demotivator, 187-190 as dominant factor, 420 centralization of communications, 462-466 cost minimization and benefit

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-99 universities as, 613-616 Nonmarket production, economics of, 120, 182-250, 194, 208, 225 emergence in digital networks, 225-243 feasibility conditions, 194-207 transaction costs, 120, 208-224 Nonmarket strategies, effectiveness of, 111-113 Nonprofit medical research, 619 Nonrival goods, 79-83 Norms (social), 27, 41, 67, 120, 145-

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within, 183-187 property, commons, and autonomy, 273-278 software for, emergence of, 659-663 technology-defined structure, 67-76 thickening of preexisting relations, 631 transaction costs, 120, 208-224 working with social expectations, 649-653 Nozick, Robert, 544 Number of behavioral options, 286-288, 316 O OAIster protocol, 581 ODP (Open

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, 195-196 cost minimization and benefit maximization, 89 fixed and initial costs, 216 production costs as limiting, 309 see also commons and social capital, 699 transaction costs, 120 Physical constraints on information production, 15-17, 60-62 Physical contact, diminishment of, 638-639 Physical layer of institutional ecology, 691, 696, 823-

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, 89, 120, 195, 216, 309 control of, 195-196 cost minimization and benefit maximization, 89 fixed and initial costs, 216 production costs as limiting, 309 transaction costs, 120 Production inputs, 81, 108, 135-148, 140, 149, 214, 238, 281, 285, 296, 335, 355, 366, 397, 463, 531, 702 Wikipedia project, 140

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within, 183-187 property, commons, and autonomy, 273-278 software for, emergence of, 659-663 technology-defined structure, 67-76 thickening of preexisting relations, 631 transaction costs, 120, 208-224 working with social expectations, 649-653 Regulations by social norms, 642 loose affiliations, 642 Reichman, Jerome, 789 Relevance filtering, 34, 135,

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within, 183-187 property, commons, and autonomy, 273-278 software for, emergence of, 659-663 technology-defined structure, 67-76 thickening of preexisting relations, 631 transaction costs, 120, 208-224 working with social expectations, 649-653 Social software, 659-663 Social structure, defined by technology, 67-76 Social-democratic theories of justice

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related policy, 146-148, 695, 803-807 shift away from, 31-34 stakes of information policy, 808-829 structure of mass media, 327-330 transaction costs, 120, 208-224 Transaction costs, 120, 208-224 Transfer of knowledge, 562 Transparency of Internet culture, 515-527 Transparency of free software, 575 Transport channel policy, 701-717

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exceptions both malicious and accidental, and minimize the need for trusted intermediaries. Related economic goals include lowering fraud loss, arbitrations and enforcement costs, and other transaction costs." The original article written by Szabo is available at http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/548. This idea of smart contracts was

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. A transaction is expected to be digitally signed and valid in order for it to be considered as a candidate in the consensus process. Each transaction costs a small amount of XRP, which serves as a protection mechanism against denial of service attacks caused by spamming. There are different types of transaction

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