Sharing David Matthew
Sharing David Matthew Today's economic system, premised on the sale of physical goods, does not fit the information age in which we live. The sharing of informational goods through distributed global…
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Sharing David Matthew
Today's economic system, premised on the sale of physical goods, does not fit the information age in which we live. The sharing of informational goods through distributed global networks - digital libraries, file-sharing, live-streaming, free software, free-access publishing, the free-sharing of scientific knowledge, and open-source pharmaceuticals - not only challenges the dominance of a scarcity-based economic system, but also enables a more efficient, innovative, just and free culture.In a series of seven explorations of contemporary sharing, Matthew David shows that in each case sharing surpasses markets, private ownership and intellectual property rights in fostering motivation, creativity, innovation, production, The capitalist order requires the maintenance of an artificial scarcity in goods that have the potential for near infinite and almost free replication.