The wealth of networks : how social production transforms markets and freedom /

Benkler, Yochai.

The wealth of networks : how social production transforms markets and freedom / Yochai Benkler. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006. - xii, 515 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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.

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Information society.
Information networks.
Computer networks--Social aspects.
Computer networks--Economic aspects.

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