In a nutshell: Economics, economies and economic theory have all been based on economics of scarcity. That is, scarcity drives the “laws” of economics. A number of things have hit the radar over the last few months that are of note:
Chris Anderson (author of “The Long Tail”): The Economics of Abundance — The speech that Anderson made at Pop!Tech this year.
Mike Masnick: The Scarcity Myth
Nick Carr: Knockoffs roil Second Life – A great example of what happens when one tries to force-fit an economic model based on scarcity into an environment where information is free.
David Hornik: Tough Choices
This idea is going to hit the mainstream press and boardrooms in a big way in 2007.
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The Scarcity of Abundance
This post from Christopher Carfi’s blog caught my eye today as I was catching up on reading. Cristopher’s one of the Principals at Cerado, a company that helps companies with competitive intelligence and other tools to use the network more effectively….