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Volume compiles studies of the production and reproduction of market-supporting social infrastructures through the prism of knowledge commons.
List of contents
Introduction. Governing markets as knowledge commons Erwin Dekker and Pavel Kuchä 1. The contribution good as the foundation of the industrial revolution Terence Kealey and Martin Ricketts; 2. On the social evolution of knowledge Renée Prendergast; 3. Individual sovereignty and coproduction of knowledge governance Edward J. López; 4. Common sense commons: the case of commonsensical social norms Brett Frischmann; 5. Conventions as shared cognitive infrastructures Young Back Choi; 6. Property rights, knowledge commons, and blockchain governance Darcy W. E. Allen, Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson, and Jason Potts; 7. Knowledge commons, social infrastructures, and informal markets: the case of informal trade credit in India Yugank Goyal; 8. Entrepreneurship and governance in the Scotch whisky knowledge commons Michelle Albert Vachris and Kyle Vachris; 9. Trolling in the deep: managing transgressive content on online platforms as a commons Julien Gradoz and Raphaël Raux; 10. Crowdfunding the Queer Museum: a polycentric identity quarrel Carolina Dalla Chiesa; 11. Understanding different qualities of the knowledge commons in contemporary cities Youn Sun Won and Arjo Klamer.
About the author
Erwin Dekker is Associate Professor of Cultural Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is the author of Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise (Cambridge, 2021) and The Viennese Students of Civilization (Cambridge, 2016).Pavel Kuchař is a lecturer at the University of Bristol and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His work has been published in the Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Econ Journal Watch and Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology.
Summary
This volume brings together studies of the production and reproduction of market-supporting social infrastructures through the prism of knowledge commons. From the production of Scotch-whisky to the governance of blockchain ledgers to the funding of Brazilian Queer-museum, the volume exhibits the importance of knowledge commons in modern society.
