Yochai Benkler
Essay
Sharing Nicely: On Shareable Goods and the Emergence of Sharing as a Modality of Economic Production
114 Yale L.J. 273 (2004)
This Essay offers a framework to explain large-scale effective practices of sharing private, excludable goods. It starts with case studies of carpooling and distributed computing as motivating problems. It then suggests a definition for shareable goods as goods that are "lump…
Article
Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm
112 Yale L.J. 369 (2002)
For decades our common understanding of the organization of economic production has been that individuals order their productive activities in one of two ways: either as employees in firms, following the directions of managers, or as individuals in markets, following price si…