In particular, the past few years have seen the rise of social production, a radically decentralized, distributed mode of interaction that Benkler calls commons-based peer production. The new information and communications technologies do not simply make the old ways of doing things more efficient, but also support fundamentally new ways of doing things. He argues that the digital revolution is more revolutionary than has been recognized, even by its most passionate defenders. Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at the Harvard Law School, is a leading authority on the law, economics, and politics of networks, innovation, intellectual property, and the Internet, and he puts his wide knowledge and deep understanding to good use. Yochai Benklers The Wealth of Networks is a comprehensive, informative, and challenging meditation on the rise of the networked information economy and its implications for society, politics, and culture.
Single Issues of The Independent Review.Podcast: Independent Outlook / Conversations.International Economics and Development.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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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