ReCoding Good Resources
Rules and policy frames
A thoughtful piece by economist Paul Romer on thinking about rule changes: PMR Presentation
Another take on "rules" is thinking about how we use and set standards. Larry Lessig's book CODE argues that the standards and codes that make the internet work also set in place a set of rules for its use. The code that makes the net run also becomes "law."
Evgeny Morozov on standards, "So we're All in Agreement," Wall Street Journal
Larry Busch, Standards: Recipes for Reality, (podcast)
The Social Economy
Rob Reich, Class Day Lecture, (video) The Promise and Peril of the New Social Economy, Stanford, June 2011 (begins at 30:00)
Yochai Benkler, The Penguin and the Leviathan
Marvin Brown, Civilizing the Economy
Lisa Gansky, Six Reasons Why The Sharing Society (aka THE MESH) Will Trump The Ownership Society
Other
Research on Greater Good — (UC Berkeley)
Series on Public Goods (UC Santa Barbara)
Sharing Economy
10 Ways our World is Becoming More Shareable — including some data on various elements of the sharing economy and its drivers. Written by Neal Gorenflo
Steve Case talks about the sharing economy on the Stephen Colbert Show
Infographic on Car Sharing from the Collaborative Fund
The Economist on Sharing Economy, Schumpeter, 2010
Lisa Gansky, The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing
Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers, What's Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
Sara Horowitz, "Occupy Big Business: The Sharing Economy's Quiet Revolution", The Atlantic.com, December 2011
The Sustainable Economies Law Center, (theselc.org)
Policies for a sharing city (20 part series)
Categories for sharing companies from Meshing it
Citizens United, Political Giving, and Nonprofit Personhood
Jane Mayer, "Covert Operations," The New Yorker, August 30, 2010
Jane Mayer, "State For Sale," The New Yorker, October 10, 2011
Larry Lessig, "Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop it"
Two articles that argue the problem is not about "Corporate Personhood":
