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Exlusion and Property Rights Theory
For better or worse, and depending on your political point of view, modern capitalism has been enabled in large part due to the development of institutions that support exclusion and property rights. This is one of the most fundemental concepts in economic theory, and a key to understanding the very underpinnings of a co-operative society that engages in trading of goods, services, and knowledge in order to maximize scarce resources.
Perhaps these are dry subjects for some who just want a polital quick fix a la "The Corporation", but these may be valuable concepts to sprinkly into the project to prevent it from seeming naiive or hypothetically shallow.
See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_rights_(economics)
Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglass_North