Vasilis Kostakis

Short bio

Vasilis Kostakis (PhD, MSc, MA) is a political economist and founder of the P2P Lab. Currently he is a research fellow with the Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, and a collaborator of the P2P Foundation.

• contact: kostakis.b at gmail.com

Selected publications

• Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy (book). site draft
• The (A)Political Economy of Bitcoin. text
• Peer Production and Desktop Manufacturing: The Case of the Helix_T Wind Turbine Project. site text
• Commons-Based Peer Production and Artistic Expression: Two Cases from Greece. site text
• From the Communism of Capital to Capital for the Commons: Towards an Open Co-operativism. text
• Commons-Based Peer Production and Digital Fabrication: The Case of a RepRap-Based, Lego-Built 3D Printing-Milling Machine. site text
• Production and Governance in Hackerspaces: A Manifestation of Commons-Based Peer Production in the Physical Realm? site text
• Open Source 3D Printing as a Means of Learning: An Educational Experiment in Two High Schools in Greece. site text
• The Parody of the Commons. text
• At the Turning Point of the Current Techno-Economic Paradigm: Commons-Based Peer Production, Desktop Manufacturing and the Role of Civil Society in the Perezian Framework. text
• The Political Economy of Information Production in the Social Web: Chances for Reflection on our Institutional Design. text
• Identifying and Understanding the Problems of Wikipedia’s Peer Governance. text
• The Amateur Class, or, The Reserve Army of the Web. text

2012-14 research

• See the completed, ongoing and future projects of the P2P Lab.
• For a full list of Vasilis Kostakis' publications click here.