[P2P-F] Fwd: A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100

Mon Jun 13 10:10:59 CEST 2011

I don't really get that article, so any summary of the main thesis would be
most appreciated,

Michel

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From: Tom Crowl <culturalengineer at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:19 PM
Subject: A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
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A fabulous article! More than merely a well-researched overview of the
history of the corporation... but an essential perspective for understanding
current trends and where they are going.

A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to
2100<http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/08/a-brief-history-of-the-corporation-1600-to-2100/>
by VENKAT on JUNE 8, 2011

*From the piece*:

*

It will be the dawn of the age of Coasean growth.

Adam Smith’s fundamental ideas helped explain the mechanics of Mercantile
economics and the colonization of space.

Joseph Schumpeter’s ides helped extend Smith’s ideas to cover Industrial
economics and the colonization of time.

Ronald Coase turned 100 in 2010. He is best known for his work on
transaction costs, social costs and the nature of the firm. Where most
classical economists have nothing much to say about the corporate form, for
Coase, it has been the main focus of his life.

Without realizing it, the hundreds of entrepreneurs, startup-studios and
incubators, 4-hour-work-weekers and lifestyle designers around the world,
experimenting with novel business structures and the attention mining
technologies of social media, are collectively triggering the age of Coasean
growth.
*
*And I'd add for consideration:*

It's just possible that facilitating and unburdening the peer-to-peer
micro-transaction (especially in certain areas) and its networking is an
essential element for what is so aptly described here as Cosean growth?
Particularly under some form of 'user-owned' utility rather than either a
typical corporate or governmental structure.

*Tom Crowl*
(818) 363-0775
http://CulturalEngineer.blogspot.com

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