The document discusses peer-to-peer (P2P) as a third mode of production, governance, and property alongside centralized hierarchy and decentralized markets. P2P enables distributed autonomy through peer production, peer governance without centralized control, and peer property models like Creative Commons that enable open access. Lower costs of participation online allow non-capitalist models to emerge. P2P challenges traditional concepts of scarcity and abundance and could inform a new post-capitalist political economy based on real abundance and sharing of knowledge and resources.

1. Peer to Peer As a new mode of production, governance, and property

7. Why P2P will grow For Profit For Benefit Immaterial production Material production

8. Striking a Critical Balance between Giving It Away and Making Money… Portfolio Free Open Paid Closed No Source Code Included No Charge for Software No Source Code Included Charge for Software Includes Source Code Charge for Software Source Code Included No Charge for Software Gratis $$$ Assets Practices … And Utilizing a Sound Business Model to Stay on Track Differentiated Value Common Value

13. User vs. corporate typology Type of Users Type of Corporation Prosumer Mode Use of distributed labour through Crowdsourcing Swarming Mode Platform Enablers for the Sharing Economy Community Mode Ecology of Commons-dependent Added-value creators

18. Institutions vs. Communities

22. As a new mode of production, governance, and property P2P = a total social fact

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24. An eComm 2008 presentation – http://eCommMedia.com for more