> Does anybody know any econ profs that might want to help us with some market
> theory writeups?

Robert Chassell, a founding Director  of the Free Software Foundation, 
and one time Treasurer, who has a degree in Economics from Cambridge 
University in England.

He has written several papers on Free Software and the economy and can be 
found at http://www.teak.cc

Examples:
Software Freedom: Access, Empowerment and Governance
http://www.teak.cc/Access-Empowerment-Governance.html

Free Software in the New Economy
http://www.teak.cc/Speech-new-economy.html

If you ever have the chance to talk to Bob in person he brings tremendous 
perspective as he is not a 'technologist'.

-Derek