A Practical Guide to Collective Action
A book by Alexander Borisovich Dolgin appeared on the Polit.Ru website yesterday: “How can we become an agreement, or the Practical Guide to Collective Actions” (with the subtitle “Beginning of the economic theory of clubs”); it is available both for reading on the website itself and for downloading in PDF format.
The author of the book (known as the founder of Imkhonet ) subjects the social networks and communities, as well as their opposite - crowdsourcing and crowdfunding, relying on the voluntary participation of certain random people, to more or less substantiated criticism. Dolgin's ideal, as far as I could judge from the text of his book, is the wide distribution of clubs of people connected by common vital, commercial, political, public interests, and people knowledgeable about mathematical, economic and IT mechanisms for deriving benefit from association and for finding such collective solutions that really suit the majority. The author also considers in some cases desirable or even categorically necessary to rely on the reputation of people instead of turning to the first comers. He also recommends that in communities it is necessary to set rather tough rules as soon as possible and thereby eliminate the costs of anarchy.
I’ll say right away that not all Dolgin’s arguments seem indisputable to me, but the book, I believe, will be interesting for many Habrahabra readers — that’s why I decided to recommend it to all of you.
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Let the name of the site Polit.Ru not make you suspect that the book posted there is replete with politics. Of all the examples considered in it, political are, it seems, not more than a third, so that it is suitable for cold-blooded reading by the non-political community of Habrahabr. (Alas, they are enough to understand that Dolgin is a liberal.)
There is a notice on the Polit.Ru website “The text is distributed under a Creative Commons license”, but without specifying the type of license(simple CC-BY or with -NC and -ND? ... suffixes ), so it looks not so comical, not so depressing; rather, probably depressing.
P.S. Notification corrected.
The author of the book (known as the founder of Imkhonet ) subjects the social networks and communities, as well as their opposite - crowdsourcing and crowdfunding, relying on the voluntary participation of certain random people, to more or less substantiated criticism. Dolgin's ideal, as far as I could judge from the text of his book, is the wide distribution of clubs of people connected by common vital, commercial, political, public interests, and people knowledgeable about mathematical, economic and IT mechanisms for deriving benefit from association and for finding such collective solutions that really suit the majority. The author also considers in some cases desirable or even categorically necessary to rely on the reputation of people instead of turning to the first comers. He also recommends that in communities it is necessary to set rather tough rules as soon as possible and thereby eliminate the costs of anarchy.
I’ll say right away that not all Dolgin’s arguments seem indisputable to me, but the book, I believe, will be interesting for many Habrahabra readers — that’s why I decided to recommend it to all of you.
')
Let the name of the site Polit.Ru not make you suspect that the book posted there is replete with politics. Of all the examples considered in it, political are, it seems, not more than a third, so that it is suitable for cold-blooded reading by the non-political community of Habrahabr. (Alas, they are enough to understand that Dolgin is a liberal.)
There is a notice on the Polit.Ru website “The text is distributed under a Creative Commons license”, but without specifying the type of license
P.S. Notification corrected.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/156429/
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