Technology and Property

William M. Dugger

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2016, vol. 48, issue 1, 111-126

Abstract: The application of scarcity and private property to technology is misguided because technology is a special kind of commons, particularly ill-suited for conversion to private property and market pricing. Emphasizing the de-centering of technology, the article explores technology’s communal aspects, Ostrom’s commons, and the dialectical process involved in the social construction of technology. An appendix adds institutional context.

Keywords: technology; property rights; communal institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B50 D70 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/0486613415586989

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