What if we got public goods all wrong? We usually think of public goods as this thing that is distinct from goods in the market - as something that benefits communities and needs to be funded thru donations or govt. But what if this is the wrong way to think about public goods?

Let's think about it this way: we used to just have products & services that producers/businesses sold to consumers (B2C). Then people realized that it may be more effective to sell some products & services directly to businesses (B2B). It could be the same product but the business model is different.

Now what if common and public goods were just B2N (Business to Network) products & services?

So instead of selling a book, for example, directly to consumers (B2C), or to wholesalers (B2B), you'd sell it to a Network Economy (B2N). Why would a Network want to buy the book? It would if its members believed that the book would produce economic growth for the network (greater than the price of the book) - a new business model!

We often think of having an effective economic model for public goods as something fantastical. In reality, the leap from our current economic model to one that also works for public goods would not be greater than the leap from an economic model that only works for B2C production to one that also works for B2B.

Just think what the world would be like without a B2B (business-to-business) model – if you could only sell products directly to customers (B2C).

You'd have a world with no supply chains, no manufacturing equipment or any large scale development. You'd still have small tools and primitive agriculture, but not too much beyond that.

What you need for B2B to work then is some level of alignment within the business and a structure that can make decisions (and payments) in the interest of the business.

That's also EXACTLY what you need for an effective B2N (business-to-network) economic model for public goods – but instead of the level of a business it would work at the level of the Network Economy

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. The transition to an economic model for public goods is not as daunting as it may seem, similar to the shift from B2C to B2B. Structure and alignment are key