We are all seeing the rapid spread of free content and services both on the Internet and in the offline world: Wikipedia, open source software, books, music, films, design... Such content is created and distributed by users themselves on a voluntary basis in self-regulating networks on based on the principles of anarchy. All this poses a challenge to traditional business. This is anarchonomics. In the future, anarchonomics will move beyond the Internet and radically change the economics of the physical world. Everything that can be digitized will be digitized, and the price of digital goods tends to zero. Knowledge and ideas, being digital goods, are of course different from physical goods, but we see that the things of the physical world are moving towards digitization. How can an economy exist under such conditions? In keeping with the spirit of anarchonomics, which embraces the free exchange of knowledge, this report is published under a Creative Commons license. This means you can freely make copies of it and publish it with attribution to the source. You may not use it for commercial purposes. If you use it to create new texts, they must be distributed under the same conditions.

This publication is supported by the Tamalex Foundation. The translation is published based on two reports by the Instituttet for Fremtidsforskning (Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies) - "Anarconomy" (#3/2009) and "Out of Control" (#1/2010) under the terms of the Creative Commons.CC-BY-NC-SA