ABSTRACT
The increasing incidence of sharing privately owned resources gives rise to a practice where the value of property is based on the contribution of labour-service by individual users. I call this ‘collaborative property’, because it seeks to preserve the features of flexibility and efficiency associated with private property, while maintaining the distributed nature of contribution and benefit characteristic of common property. What form of internal value system and external value proposition is created by walking this tight rope? Does collaborative property suffer from the same propensities of overexploitation of commons, or is it more susceptible to accumulation of capital like private property? How is value in collaborative property created, maintained, and distributed, and what personal or institutional incentives sustain this process? This paper seeks to delineate the archetypal characteristics of collaborative property from the aspect of value, and begin to outline the institutional infrastructure needed to support it.
Zhu, Sally, Collaborative Property: P2P sharing as property system (October 16, 2023).
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