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The Top 20 Books on Peer to Peer

On Peer Production in general

  1. The Wealth of Networks. Yochai Benkler.
  2. The Success of Open Source. Steve Weber.
  3. Democratizing Innovation. Erik von Hippel.
  4. Wikinomics. Don Tapscott.
  5. From Production to Produsage. Axel Bruns. (see the article on Produsage)
  6. Here Comes Everybody. Clay Shirky.
  7. Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today. Chris Carlsson. AK Press, 2008


Also:

  1. The Pirate's Dilemma. Matt Mason.
  2. Capitalism 3.0. Peter Barnes.
  3. Hacking Capitalism. Johan Soderbergh
  4. The Long Tail. Chris Anderson.
  5. The Wisdom of Crowds. James Surowiecki.


On Free and Open Source Software production and philosophy specifically

  1. The Success of Open Source. Steven Weber.
  2. The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Eric Raymond.
  3. Open Life. Henrik Ingo.
  4. Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software. An MIT reader, 2005
  5. Hacking Capitalism. Johan Soderbergh.
  6. Decoding Liberation

On P2P Governance and Property

  1. The Future of the Internet - and how to stop it. Jonathan Zittrain on protecting a free and Generative Internet
  2. The Success of Open Source. Steven Weber on the governance of open source communities


On P2P Management and Leadership

  1. The Myth of Leadership. Jeffrey Nielsen.
  2. The Hacker Ethic. Pekka Himanen.
  3. The Play Ethic. Pat Kane.
  4. Cyberchiefs. By Mathew O'Neill. Excellent monograph with 4 case studies.
  5. Three Ways of Getting Things Done: modes of corporate governance

On Peer Property and the Commons

  1. Code. Ed. by Rishab Ayer Ghosh.
  2. The Rule of Property. Karen Coulter.
  3. Common as Air. Lewis Hyde. 2010

On Political and Social Change

  1. The Hacker Manifesto. McKenzie Wark.
  2. Massimo De Angelis: The Beginning of History. Value Struggles and Global Capital. Pluto, 2007: about the Commons as a political movement inaugurating a new era of history
  3. Cyber Marx. Nick Dyer-Whiteford.
  4. Gramsci is Dead. Richard Day.
  5. Code 2.0. Lawrence Lessig.
  6. Viral Spiral. David Bollier. An account of the emergence of the contemporary Commons movement


On power in networks (Protocollary Power):

  1. Protocol and The Exploit: How Control Exists after Decentralization. Alexander Galloway et al.
  2. David Grewal: Network Power, how standards come about in non-free ways
  3. Theory of Power. By Jack Vail.


On open and collaborative government:

  1. Wiki Government. How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful. Beth Noveck. Brookings Institution Press, 2009: on the emergence of Collaborative Democracy,i.e. soliciting expertise from self-selected peers working together in groups in open networks


On the political implications of the hacker and free software movements:

  1. Johan Soderbergh: Hacking Capitalism
  2. Decoding Liberation
  3. Christopher Kely. Two Bits, on the strategy of Recursive Publics
  4. Abstract Activism. Otto von Busch and Karl Palmås.


On digital activism and the networked alterglobalization movement:

  1. Networking Futures. Jeffrey Juris, 'the bible of the autonomous movements'
  2. Netroots Rising. How a citizen army of bloggers and online activists is changing American politics. by Lowell Feld and Nate Wilcox. 2008
  3. Digital Activism Decoded. Ed. by Mary Joyce. Idebate Press, 2010 [1]


Also:

  1. The Coming Dark Age: recommended!
  2. Momentum. Allison H. Fine
  3. Garden World. Doug Carmichael.

On P2P Business Change


On Social Business Design:

  1. Brafman, Ori and Rod A. Beckstrom, The Starfish And the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, Portfolio, 2006.
  2. Chesbrough, Henry, Open Innovation — The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology, Harvard Business School Press, 2003.
  3. Li, Charlene and Josh Bernoff, Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies, Harvard Business School Press, 2008.
  4. Malone, Thomas W. et al, 1) Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century, MIT Press, 2003; 2) Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology, Erlbaum, 2001.
  5. Mulholland, Andy et al, 1) Mesh Collaboration, Evolved Technologist, 2008l 2) Mashup Corporations: The End of Business as Usual, Evolved Technologist, 2008.
  6. Thompson, Ken. Bioteams: on Bioteaming


On the Sharing Economy:


On the new economic rules:

  1. Hayes, Tom, Jump Point: How Network Culture is Revolutionizing Business, McGraw-Hill, 2008.
  2. Howe, Jeff, Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business, Crown Business, 2008.
  3. Kelly, Kevin, New Rules for the New Economy, Penguin, 1999.


See also:

  1. Fingar, Peter, and Ronald Aronica, Dot Cloud. Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2009.

On P2P Culture

  1. Smart Mobs. Howard Rheingold
  2. The Play Ethic. By Pat Kane.
  3. Hacker Ethic. Pekka Himanen.
  4. Knowing Knowledge. George Siemens.
  5. Open Culture and the Nature of Networks. Ed. by Felix Stalder.
  6. Slow Living. Wency Parkins and Geoffrey Craig.
  7. Understanding Knowledge as Commons. Eleanor Ostrom et al.
  8. James Boyle. The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. [2]
  9. Sharing and the Creative Economy: Culture in the Internet Age. Philippe Aigrain, 2010.

On P2P Economics

  1. Christian Siefkes: From Exchange to Contributions: alternative proposal for an effort-sharing/task-auctioning based system of organizing the economy


Books Recommended by Dave Pollard on Ecological and community-based economics:

  1. Herman Daly on Steady-State Economics
  2. Roger Douthwaite's Short Circuit, a blueprint for a community-based economy
  3. Thomas Princen explains why we need to evolve to a Logic of Sufficiency
  4. Peter Brown: The Commonwealth of Life


On P2P Education

  1. Knowing Knowledge. By George Siemens. An exploration of participative learning.
  2. Everything is Miscellaneous. By David Weinberger. How we are changing the way we organize knowledge.
  3. The Edu-factory Collective (eds) (2009) Toward a Global Autonomous University. Cognitive Labor, The Production of Knowledge, and Exodus from the Education Factory. New York: Autonomedia, 2009 [3]
  4. Wikiworld: Political Economy of Digital Literacy, and the Road from Social to Socialist Media. Juha Suoranta - Tere Vadén. [4]

On P2P Spirituality

  1. Participatory Spirituality - A Farewell to Authoritarian Religion. By John Heron.
  2. Digital Dharma. Steven Vedro.
  3. A Reenchanted World: The Quest For A New Kinship With Nature by James William Gibson. Metropolitan Books,
  4. The Ascent of Humanity. Charles Eisenstein.
  5. The Participatory Mind

On Human Cooperation

  1. The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness, coedited by Dacher Keltner, Jason Marsh, and Jeremy Adam Smith (January, WW Norton), 2009
  2. Why We Cooperate, by Michael Tomasello (Boston Review Books), 2009
  3. The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society, by Frans de Waal (Harmony Books), 2009

Other Recommended Books

Practical How To Books

  1. Wireless Networking in the Developing World


Online Books, including books-in-progress

Gamer Theory

LETSaholic Twist

Participatory Spirituality - A Farewell to Authoritarian Religion. By John Heron.

People and Participation

We Are Smarter

We Think. Charles Leadbeater.

Winning by Sharing


Older Classics that are available online

The Natural Economic Order. By Silvio Gesell.

The New State. Mary Parker Follet.


Internet Classics by Year

Selected via Adam Thierer [5]:

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