The interesting thing, for me, is how they don’t go hand in hand at time. Certainly there’s a very different rhetorical tone that we see employed with regard to economies based on sharing (Mike talks about this in “A Pattern-Oriented Approach to Fair Use”). See, e.g., the way Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation approach IP issues vs. credit issues. Reputation economies are much more easily tied into normative and moral concepts, which are more suppressed in market economies.

And I don’t think you’re suggesting this, but I think we’d make a mistake if we thought of the pursuit of reputation as something that can be easily subsumed in a market economic approach. If anything, it ought to be the other way around.

The real question is whether the reputation economy exists outside the market economy. I don’t think it does. Linux programmers motivated by reputation-seeking want to capitalize on that by being hired in the traditional market, right? Reputation has very real implications in the market economy and I think that drives people to be of renown.