From OpenSourceSoftwarePractice

Contents 1 Textbook for this Section 1.1 Principles of Economics 1.2 Coase's Penguin 1.3 The Political Economy of Open Source 1.4 The Simple Economics of Open Source 2 Topics 3 Side Material

Textbook for this Section

Principles of Economics

• "Principles of Economics"
  • by Libby Rittenberg, Timothy Tregarthen
  • http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/pub/1.0/principles-economics
  • https://www.flatworldknowledge.com/luisibanez/open-source-software-practice

• This book is available under a
  • Creative Commons
  • Non-Commercial Share-Alike license.
  • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Coase's Penguin

• Coase's Penguin
  • Yochia Benkler
  • http://www.yale.edu/yalelj/112/BenklerWEB.pdf

The Political Economy of Open Source

• The Political Economy of Open Source
  • Steven Weber
  • http://brie.berkeley.edu/econ/publications/wp/wp140.pdf

The Simple Economics of Open Source

• The Simple Economics of Open Source
• Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
• http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers2/9900/00-059.pdf

Topics

• Goods and Services
  • Rival goods
  • Excludable goods
  • Public goods
  • Anti-Rival goods
    • Concept of critical mass around standards of software and hardware
• Value
  • Market Value
  • Fair Market Value
• Currency
  • Breton Woods
  • IMF
  • Federal Reserve
  • Treasury
    • Special Drawing Rights (SDR)
• Securities
• Derivatives
• Stock Market
• Principles of Capitalism
• Principles of Socialism
• Principles of Comunism
• The role of Information (or Uncertainty) in Economy
• Means of Production
  • Feudalism
  • Communism
  • Industrialization
  • Information Economy
• Government Intervention
  • Regulation versus Free Markets
  • Monopolies and Trusts
• Country Economy
  • Gross Domestic Product
  • Trade
    • Trade deficit
  • National Debt
  • Distribution of the Federal Budget
  • Contributions from different industries to GDP
• Information
  • Value of Reputation
  • Prices as signals

Side Material

• Sir Ken Robinson (at TED 2006)
  • http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
  • (Creativity and taking the risk of being wrong: 5:20 to 6:30)
  • (Shakespeare: 6:30 to 7:45)
  • (Talents versus ADD: 15:05 to 17:40)
• Richard Stallman Talk (at RPI 2008)
  • Programming Education: (1:26:40 to 1:30:00)
  • Sharing Education: (1:30:00 to 1:31:40)
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8240499345320964787&ei=-F6eStiML576rAKOxOTlCg&q=charlie+rose+eric+schmidt#
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8240499345320964787&ei=xBefSrz-Nqb0qgKEqazuCg&q=charlie+rose+erich+schmidt#
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6922732403350430364# (minute 18:44)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgYE75gkzkM (Yochia Benkler)