• RecordNumber
    6491
  • Author
    Benkler, Yochai
  • Title

    The Wealth of networks : how social production transforms markets and freedom

  • Author Statement
    Yochai Benkler
  • Publication
    Yale University Press
  • Publication Year
    c2006
  • Collation
    xii, 515 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
  • Notes
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-490) and index. , Introduction: a moment of opportunity and challenge -- The networked information economy -- Some basic economics of information production and innovation -- Peer production and sharing -- The economics of social production -- The political economy of property and commons -- Individual freedom: autonomy, information, and law -- Political freedom part 1: the trouble with mass media -- Political freedom part 2: emergence of the networked public sphere -- Cultural freedom: a culture both plastic and critical -- Justice and development -- Social ties: networking together -- Policies of freedom at a moment of transformation -- The battle over the institutional ecology of the digital environment -- Conclusion: the stakes of information law and policy
  • Subject

    Information society. , Information networks. , Computer networks , Computer networks

  • Main class
    303.48/33