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

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



____________________________
Author: Yochai Benkler
Number of Pages: 528 pages
Published Date: 23 Oct 2007
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Country: New Haven, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780300125771
Download Link: Click Here
____________________________

download epub, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom kindle,iPhone, download epub, zip, ebook pdf, epub download, facebook, for mac, paperback, iPad, iOS, for PC, Yochai Benkler download epub,download ebook, mobi, read online The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler for PC,download book, free ebook, free pdf, pocket, rarkindle, fb2, Read online, book review, download pdf, download torrent, ebook,

Description

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 changing--and 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 gained--or lost--by the decisions we make today.