Author of machiavelli.net, proud father of three, interested in shaping network society. Welcome to my blog.Category Archives for Blog
revolutionary transaction costs – keeping the revolutionaries honest
Today in the Monterrey Forum, we discussed two interesting projects trying to revolutionize human life – the use of Web 2.0 applications in municipal government in Japan and the idea to create transnational republics, responsible for introducing democratic accountability concerning … Continue reading
Battling for the Institutional Ecology of Network Society
[Challenge] In 2002 the world came together in Monterrey to address the millennium development goals. The goals were developed by governments for governments. Today, global problems and global interconnectedness are challenging us to reflect how we govern social life on … Continue reading
The Night before the Battle (week)
Most of us have arrived and after spending the weekend exploring the amazing city-scaping the state government here has done for the Forum, we are ready for the event. The challenge for the next five days is to outline the … Continue reading
Lawyers in Public Policy
I spent all day yesterday in the Residenz in Salzburg, listening to amazingly smart Austrian, Swiss, and German government officials talking about how public administration is transforming. The event was organized by the Austrian Society for Public Administration. If you … Continue reading
Public Goods in Network Society
You probably remember from Econ 101 that public goods were defined initially by Paul Samuelson (‘The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure’ , Review of Economics and Statistics, 1954) as those where person A’s consumption of the good did not interfere … Continue reading
Larry Lessig’s Alpha on Corruption
It is a must-see for several reasons:a) important topic.b) the lessig-presentation-style (done in keynote, not powerpoint).c) to reflect the academic politics we do.
Planting Rainbows and Felony Interference
The last Radiohead album I bought was Kid A at the airport in Athens at 5 am in the morning about 6 years ago, after driving over the Peloponnese for 7 hours. And I was not planning on buying another … Continue reading
A Political Theory of Service
For quite some time, we have been speaking about moving from a product to a service economy. However, it seems that we have underestimated the politico-social implications of this move – think about the recent debate on hacking the iphone … Continue reading
peer producing learning
you might remember a time before wikipedia, but could you imagine a world without it? Have you thought of what OpenCourseWare could be, if MIT would open it? There is hope with Curriki, an interesting experiment that just might change … Continue reading
the political economy of olpc
While we are waiting for the eeepc, check out Erick Schonfeld‘s olpc disruptor video. Both projects raises several interesting questions about the institutional ecology of tomorrow: – What is the best institutional framework to induce creativity?– Does the open source … Continue reading
