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+# Open Source Pledge Additional Documentation
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+This repository contains:
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+* [Reading List: Economics of Public Goods](./reading-list-economics-of-public-goods.md)

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+# Reading List: Economics of Public Goods
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+Contact me for PDFs.
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+## Confirmed Helpful
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+* [Positive production externalities][ppe]
+* “[The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond][tirole]” by Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole, particularly p 102–105
+* “[The Success of Open Source][weber]” 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][gori]” by Gori et al. See p 71–74 (on why “gift economy” can be an oxymoron)
+* “[The Common Good][common-good]” by Waheed Hussain, Margaret Kohn, in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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+## Queue
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+* “[Envisioning Real Utopias][utopias]” by Erik Olin Wright, see “wikipedia”
+* “[Markets without Symbolic Limits][symbolic]” by Brennan et al
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+## General Points
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+* Open Source is not a gift economy (see Weber p 149–156, Hénaff p 71–74)
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+[ppe]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality#Positive
+[tirole]: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2F0895330054048678
+[weber]: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674018587
+[gori]: https://www.winter-verlag.de/en/detail/978-3-8253-6331-4/Carla_Gori_Eds_Gift_giving/
+[common-good]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/common-good/
+[symbolic]: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/680907
+[utopias]: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2143-envisioning-real-utopias