The following list are must-read essays for anyone trying to understand the various aspects of the emerging peer to peer paradigm.
- 1 Paul S. Adler and Charles Heckscher: Towards Collaborative Community
- 2 Ernesto Arias (et al.) on Transcending the Individual Human Mind through Collaborative Design
- 3 Adam Arvidsson on the Crisis of Value and the Ethical Economy
- 4 Yaneer Bar-Yam on Complexity, Hierarchy, and Networks
- 5 Richard Barbrook on the ‘High-tech Gift Economy'
- 6 Yochai Benkler on Peer Production
- 7 James Boyle, on the Public Domain and the Second Enclosure movement
- 8 Bauwens & Kostakis on the Four Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy
- 9 George Caffentzis: On the Antagonistic Usage of the Commons Concept
- 10 Kevin Carson, on expanding peer production to the physical domain
- 11 Predrag Cicovacki, on the metaphysics of co-evolution and transdisciplinary methodology
- 12 Julia Cohen, on copyright law and sharing
- 13 Mark Cooper on a Policy for Collaborative Production
- 14 Mariarosa Dalla Costa on the Commons of Land and Food
- 15 Massimo De Angelis on The Production of the Commons and the Explosion of the Middle Class.
- 16 Massimo De Angelis on a political strategy to unite commons and political/social movements
- 17 Paul de Armond, on netwar in political protest
- 18 Erik Douglas, on peer governance and democracy
- 19 Stephen Downes on Free Learning and P2P epistemology
- 20 Nick Dyer-Witheford on the Circulation of the Common
- 21 Jo Freeman, on the dark side of Peer Governance
- 22 Brett Frischmann, an economic theory for the Commons
- 23 Richard Heinberg on The Decentralized Provisioning of the Basic Necessities as the Fight of the Century
- 24 John Heron on the relational ground of human consciousness: Notes on Spiritual Leadership and Relational Spirituality
- 25 Yasuhiko Genku Kimura: Creating a ommicentric Ideosphere
- 26 Vasilis_Kostakis et al. on Peer Production and Desktop Manufacturing
- 27 Magnus Marsdal on Socialist Individualism
- 28 Ugo Mattei: The State, the Market, and some Preliminary Question about the Commons
- 29 Eben Moglen on Free Software and the Death of Proprietary Culture
