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Some Questions

Some Questions. David Hales www.davidhales.com The Open University, UK NESS Grand Challenges, March. 29 th , 2012. Agency and Incentives – what happens to them?. Rational choice / human action as a priori basis for economic explanation (a kind of algorithm)

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Some Questions

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  1. Some Questions David Hales www.davidhales.com The Open University, UK NESS Grand Challenges, March. 29th, 2012

  2. Agency and Incentives –what happens to them? • Rational choice / human action as a priori basis for economic explanation (a kind of algorithm) • What to replace it with? (new kinds of algorithm?) • What are the boundaries of agency – where is it? • New incentive concepts?

  3. Commons Based Peer Production – are the hackers right?

  4. Commons Based Peer Production –are the hackers right? • Commons based peer production • Incentives – intrinsic v. extrinsic • Techno-social networking tools: new decentralised mechanisms for coordination / info. signalling different from “market” price • P2P money / lending / banking • Can we abstract mechanisms similar to “markets” – group selection?

  5. Evolutionary models –crude metaphor or new paradigm? • Everyone likes evolutionary approaches (it gives us an algorithm – think of Dennett) • But is it more than a crude metaphor – if not when what IS evolving in social systems? • What different kinds of evolutionary models can be abstracted and where are they applicable? • Why did the meme abstraction die out?

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