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Learning to Share; No, selfishness is not dying, but more and more companies and countries are seeing the profit and advantage in sharing knowledge.
Byline: Rana Foroohar
The invisible hand of Adam Smith is morphing into an invisible handshake. Since his day in the 18th century, economists have built their models on the Smithian assumption that humans are self-interested, and not inclined to share. But look around. Drug companies, consumer-goods makers and industrial firms once jealously guarded their R&D. Now they are outsourcing it to freelancers, who search the world like bounty hunters for the biggest rewards. Grids that use peer-to-peer technology to pool computing power will soon connect most companies and consumers. The new work paradigm--sharing, rather than protecting, trade secrets--is quickly ...
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