[p2p-research] The Change Economy

[marc fawzi]

AHITU is a great book.

I'm asking because it seems for the first time "change" (and more
specifically, and as you say, 'network enabled change') is maturing into a
full fledged economy and I'm personally interested in figuring out the size
of the change economy.... no business motivation, just my own curiosity.



On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> Marc,
>
> There are actually some rather old models on this.
>
> If you start with Stuart Kauffman
> http://www.citeulike.org/user/VRadenovic/article/158503 At Home in the
> Universe, you'll get some background on the network and system dynamics
> related to this type of change. On a systems scale, the lower cost of
> creating and using "open source" coupled with the fact that these projects
> are often coupled to networks, tends to increase wealth generation, and the
> divergent filling of niches possible with cores that are optimized for
> flexible customization and re-use, tends to open up more niches to be
> filled.
>
> I don't know about the numbers in dollars. We (our network) could fill a
> role in taking the lead on research like this. There may be some useful info
> at http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:37 PM, marc fawzi <marc.fawzi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I'm wondering if anyone out there has a good view of all the economic
>> activity that is related to "change"
>>
>> For example, the number of companies that are open sourcing their
>> proprietary software or processes, and what that is creating in terms of
>> economic activity.
>>
>> Another example, the number of universities that are open sourcing their
>> courses (like MIT, Stanford) and those implementing 'holistic education',
>> what that is creating in terms of economic activity.
>>
>> I wonder if someone has the time to give us a good description of the
>> change economy and it's size (e.g. total spending on change in dollars.)
>>
>>
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