From The Future and its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress by Virginia Postrel:
- Allow individuals (including groups of individuals) to act on their own knowledge.
- Apply to simple, generic units and allow them to combine in many different ways.
- Permit credible, understandable, enduring, and enforceable commitments.
- Protect criticism, competition, and feedback.
- Establish a framework within which people can create nested, competing frameworks of more specific rules.