I don't really get that article, so any summary of the main thesis would be most appreciated,<br><br>Michel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Crowl</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:culturalengineer@gmail.com">culturalengineer@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:19 PM<br>Subject: A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100<br>To: <br><br><br><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div>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.</div>
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<a href="http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/08/a-brief-history-of-the-corporation-1600-to-2100/" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112);" target="_blank">A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100</a></h1></span><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px;">by�<span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-style: normal; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px;">VENKAT</span>�on�<abbr title="2011-06-08" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1em; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px; border-bottom-style: none; font-style: normal;">JUNE 8, 2011</abbr></span></div>
<div><br></div><div><b>From the piece</b>:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><i><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em;">
It will be the dawn of the age of Coasean growth.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em;">
Adam Smith�s fundamental ideas helped explain the mechanics of Mercantile economics and the colonization of space.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em;">
Joseph Schumpeter�s ides helped extend Smith�s ideas to cover Industrial economics and the colonization of time.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em;">
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.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em;">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.</p>
</i></span></div><div><b>And I'd add for consideration:</b></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
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