Commons & Collective Action
- Elinor Ostrom — Governing the Commons (1990); Understanding Institutional Diversity (2005).
- Mancur Olson — The Logic of Collective Action (1965).
- Yochai Benkler — The Wealth of Networks (2006).
Governance, Sortition, Deliberation
- David Van Reybrouck — Against Elections (2016).
- Hélène Landemore — Open Democracy (2020).
- James Surowiecki — The Wisdom of Crowds (2004).
Systems, Biomimicry & Complexity
- Donella Meadows — Thinking in Systems (2008).
- Janine Benyus — Biomimicry (1997).
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb — Antifragile (2012).
- Stafford Beer — Brain of the Firm; Viable System Model.
Trust, Reputation, and Repair
- Doc Searls & David Weinberger — World of Ends; Cluetrain themes.
- John Braithwaite — Restorative Justice & Responsive Regulation (2002).
Cryptography & Privacy-Preserving Computation
- Oded Goldreich — Foundations of Cryptography (2001/2004).
- Craig Gentry — “Fully Homomorphic Encryption using Ideal Lattices” (2009).
- Dan Boneh & Victor Shoup — A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography (draft).
Economics, Gift & Reciprocity
- Marcel Mauss — The Gift (1925).
- David Graeber — Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011).
- Karl Polanyi — The Great Transformation (1944).
Organizational Design & Diversity
- Scott E. Page — The Diversity Bonus (2017).
- Amy Edmondson — The Fearless Organization (2018).
Digital Rules & Architecture
- Lawrence Lessig — Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999/2006).
Risk & Safety
- Nancy Leveson — Engineering a Safer World (2011).