The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

Yochai Benkler

Published by Yale University Press 2008

The Wealth of Networks

How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

Yochai Benkler

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300127232

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About this book

With the radical changes in information production that the Internet has introduced, we stand at an important moment of transition, says Yochai Benkler in this thought-provoking book. The phenomenon he describes as social production is reshaping markets, while at the same time offering new opportunities to enhance individual freedom, cultural diversity, political discourse, and justice. But these results are by no means inevitable: a systematic campaign to protect the entrenched industrial information economy of the last century threatens the promise of today’s emerging networked information environment.

In this comprehensive social theory of the Internet and the networked information economy, Benkler describes how patterns of information, knowledge, and cultural production are changingand shows that the way information and knowledge are made available can either limit or enlarge the ways people can create and express themselves. He describes the range of legal and policy choices that confront us and maintains that there is much to be gainedor lostby the decisions we make today.

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Yochai Benkler is the Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School, Yale University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
1. Introduction: A Moment of Opportunity and Challenge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. The Networked Information Economy
2. Some Basic Economics of Information Production and Innovation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3. Peer Production and Sharing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4. The Economics of Social Production Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Part Two. The Political Economy of Property and Commons
5. Individual Freedom: Autonomy, Information, and Law Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
6. Political Freedom Part 1: The Trouble with Mass Media Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
7. Political Freedom Part 2: Emergence of the Networked Public Sphere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
8. Cultural Freedom: A Culture Both Plastic and Critical Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
9. Justice and Development Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
10. Social Ties: Networking Together Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	356
Part Three. Policies of Freedom at a Moment of Transformation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
11. The Battle Over the Institutional Ecology of the Digital Environment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
12. Conclusion: The Stakes of Information Law and Policy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	460
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	475
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	491

Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages
- Main content: 528
Illustrations
- Other: 10 b-w illus.

eBook

Published: October 1, 2008
ISBN: 9780300127232