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- Positive production externalities.
- “The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond” by Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole, particularly p 102–105.
- “The Success of Open Source” by Steven Weber, particularly p 149–156 (gift economy, public good, positive network externalities); p 227–231 (property rights); p 231–243 (distributed innovation); p 243–248 (tragedy of the commons, positive externalities, meaningful work).
- “Is There Such a Thing as a Gift Economy?” by Marcel Hénaff. In “Gift Giving and the ‘Embedded’ Economy in the Ancient World” by Gori et al. See p 71–74 (on why “gift economy” can be an oxymoron).
- “The Common Good” by Waheed Hussain; Margaret Kohn in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- “Envisioning Real Utopias” by Erik Olin Wright, see section on Wikipedia starting p 201. The main useful point is that, though people like Eric S Raymond think Open Source contributors are motivated by prestige, the example of Wikipedia offers a counterpoint to this.
- “Public Goods” by Julian Reiss in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- “Mutuality: Critique and substitute for Belk’s ‘sharing’” by Eric J Arnould and Alexander S Rose.
- “Markets without Symbolic Limits” by Brennan et al.
- “Group Duties” by Stephanie Collins.
- Open Source is not a gift economy (see Weber p 149–156, Hénaff p 71–74, Arnould et al p 3).