List of White Papers

People's Capitalism policy is necessarily detailed and nuanced. We are working on periodically updated briefings that condense research with hundreds of technologists, policy experts, community groups and politicians. 

 

They are in three categories spanning 15 papers:

 

1) Context

Online Markets happened suddenly, they have extraordinary possibilities and merit analysis for economic/social policy.

 

• How to Evaluate an E-Market (Complete)

• The Untapped Potential of Horizontal Markets (In progress)

• Ten Defining Characteristics of "POEMs" Markets (In progress)

• Overview of the Enabling Concession (Complete)

 

 

2) Public Service Obligations

There are many unfettered for-profit pseudo-markets, what factors turn digital markets into a genuine public utility?

 

• Operators' Funding Obligations (In progress)

• Fixed Transaction Charge (In progress)

• Maximum Average Transaction Size (In progress but intermediate paper shared)

• Structural Decentralization (In progress but intermediate paper shared)

• Neutrality, Transparency, Checks & Balances (In progress)

 

 

3) Impact of Peoples' Capitalism

How might market economies change if anyone can harness fully enabling e-markets to pursue economic aspirations?

 

• Keeping Transactions Honest (In progress)

• Greening the Micro-Economy (Complete)

• People's Financial Markets (In progress)

• Human Capital as an Asset Class (In progress)

• Upgrading the Safety Net (In progress)

• Transition Economies (In progress)

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