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open source has run for thirty years on a basis the textbook says cannot hold. It looks more like several arrangements overlaid on each other, part gift economy, part shared infrastructure, part public archive, part reputation system, with no single mechanism carrying it.
If this kind of shit had been scribbled in the margins of my economics textbook, I would’ve paid more attention in class.
You might dig James Boyle. I haven’t read “The Public Domain” (book by him) yet, but I have read the IP Caselaw textbook he coauthored. It’s really meant to be a textbook for law students, not a treatise on anticapitalism, so it mostly doesn’t go into the kind of stuff in this article, but it does have excerpts from The Public Domain (which is a lot more about the kind of stuff in Nesbitt’s blog post) throughout and the final chapter in particular is very much on that topic.