Coase-UBI experiment: give a community of adults a high UBI, require that they can only buy from outside world but not sell to it (Ie produce free stuff or nothing) and track *size* of collaborations they form among themselves.
They can pool funds but can’t pay each other
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This would be an empirical estimate of “state-of-nature” org size distribution that factors out currency mediated transactions and contracts.
I predict median person would join a band of size ~12-30, whatever the activity.
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Lateral group transfer rate (with associated assets) seems like a relevant parameter to control for.
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Ah yes, curiously enough that was my PhD topic (a set of teams being mixed via lateral transfers towards ideal configuration as system evolves)
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Don’t have thesis itself online but here’s abstract. deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42
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Methods are specific to some aerospace multiagent domains but we did look into generalizing to airline crew scheduling.
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I’m tucking it away for later reading (once I get a hold of the full manuscript). Related: I’ve seen airline crew scheduling multiple times for organizational studies. Is it the zebrafish of orgs? If so, why?
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