Book contents
- Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons
- Cambridge Studies on Governing Knowledge Commons
- Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Contribution Good as the Foundation of the Industrial Revolution
- 2 On the Social Evolution of Knowledge
- 3 Individual Sovereignty and Coproduction of Knowledge Governance
- 4 Common Sense Commons
- 5 Conventions as Shared Cognitive Infrastructures
- 6 Property Rights, Knowledge Commons, and Blockchain Governance
- 7 Knowledge Commons, Social Infrastructures, and Informal Markets
- 8 Entrepreneurship and Governance in the Scotch Whisky Knowledge Commons
- 9 Trolling in the Deep
- 10 Crowdfunding the Queer Museum
- 11 Understanding Different Qualities of the Knowledge Commons in Contemporary Cities
- References
6 - Property Rights, Knowledge Commons, and Blockchain Governance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 December 2021
- Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons
- Cambridge Studies on Governing Knowledge Commons
- Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Contribution Good as the Foundation of the Industrial Revolution
- 2 On the Social Evolution of Knowledge
- 3 Individual Sovereignty and Coproduction of Knowledge Governance
- 4 Common Sense Commons
- 5 Conventions as Shared Cognitive Infrastructures
- 6 Property Rights, Knowledge Commons, and Blockchain Governance
- 7 Knowledge Commons, Social Infrastructures, and Informal Markets
- 8 Entrepreneurship and Governance in the Scotch Whisky Knowledge Commons
- 9 Trolling in the Deep
- 10 Crowdfunding the Queer Museum
- 11 Understanding Different Qualities of the Knowledge Commons in Contemporary Cities
- References
Summary
Knowledge about property rights is a commons that facilitates market exchange and economic coordination. The governance of that shared knowledge resource—the various formal and informal rules that maintain ledgers of property rights—ranges from community norms to formal state registries. In this chapter we make three contributions. First, we use the lens of knowledge commons theory to argue that knowledge about property rights is a shared resource. Second, we explore how that knowledge commons is governed—particularly relating to “rules in use”—might shift due to technological advances in distributed ledgers. Third, we argue that as blockchain augments and complements existing governance structures, it creates a more robust political economy.
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- Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons , pp. 159 - 175Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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