since tirole is a successor to coase in some sense, here’s one of my favorite papers, by Yochai Benkler on how open source could help revolutionize the nature of production:

we are seeing is the broad and deep emergence of a new, third mode of production in the digitally networked environment. I call this mode “commons-based peer-production,” to distinguish it from the property- and contract-based models of firms and markets

the paper has remained under-appreciated since it came out in 2002, and deserves to be more widely known.

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