[p2p-research] thinking about leapfrogging

[Kevin Carson]

On 10/2/08, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kevin, Joseph, Eric:
>
> would it at all possible to get some bibliographic help from you guys. What
> I would like is at least one link and a 1-2-3 line annotation.

More than half of my material comes from the P2P blog and Wiki, and
allied efforts like OS Ecology and Bucky-Gandhi.  Here's the best I
could glean from the rest:

1) "Plowboy Interview," Mother Earth News, March-April 1974,
http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0303critic/Brsdi.intrvw/The%20Plowboy-Borsodi%20Interview.htm.
Discusses comparative efficiency of household vs. factory production

2)  Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, Natural
Capitalism:  Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Boston, New
York, London:  Little, Brown and Company, 1999).
Chapter on lean production relevant to networked local economies

3)  Michael H. Shuman, The Small-Mart Revolution:  How Local
Businesses are Beating the Global Competition (San Francisco:
Barrett-Koehler Publications, Inc., 2006, 2007).
Ditto.

4)  Robert Williams, "Bologna and Emilia Romagna:  A Model of Economic
Democracy," paper presented to the annual meeting of the Canadian
Economics Association, University of Calgary. May/June 2002.
<http://www.bcca.coop/pdfs/BolognaandEmilia.pdf>

5) Craig DeLancey, "Openshot," Analog, December 2006, pp. 64-74.
Fictional depiction of open-source moon mission

6) Jed, "Capitalists vs. Entrepreneurs," Anomalous Presumptions,
February 26, 2007. <http://jed.jive.com/?p=23>

7) Charles Johnson, "Dump the rentiers off your back," Rad Geek
People's Daily, May 29, 2008.
<http://radgeek.com/gt/2008/05/29/dump_the/>
Extremely valuable when read together with #6.  On lower entry costs
when many small units of capital can be aggregated with low
transaction costs

8) Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action (London:  Freedom Press, 1982).
Material on community workshops

9) Karl Hess, Community Technology (New York, Cambridge, Hagerstown,
Philadelphia, San Francisco, London, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Sydney:
Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979), pp. 96-98.
Material on community workshops

10)  Keith Paton, The Right to Work or the Fight to Live?
(Stoke-on-Trent, 1972).
Material on community workshops

11)  Ralph Borsodi, Flight From the City
On small-scale electrical machinery for household production

12)  Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization
Ditto, under heading of "neotechnic phase"

13) Jonathan Rowe, "Entrepreneurs of Cooperation," Yes!, Spring 2006.
<http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1464>
On direct production for barter during Depression




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Kevin Carson
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