The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler

“He has become an unlikely business guru, with a shop at the intersection of Commerce and Cooperation. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler 3.96 Rating details 1,695 ratings 53 reviews 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.

He's the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (home to many of TED's favorite people).

(Texts can be found at and check out this web-based seminar on The Wealth of Networks.) He was awarded EFF's Pioneer Award in 2007. Download PDFs of the book - Yochai Benkler - Wealth of Networks Download PDFs of the book You can download the whole book in one PDF: Download whole book (3.6 MB) Or you can download each chapter individually: (the 'paper-friendly' versions have been reformatted for 8. He has gained admirers far beyond the academy, so much so that when he released his book online with a Creative Commons license, it was mixed and remixed online by fans. His most recent writings (such as his 2006 book The Wealth of Networks) discuss the effects of net-based information production on our lives and minds and laws. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom on JSTOR Journals and books Journals and books Yochai Benkler Copyright Date: 2006 Published by: Yale University Press Pages: 528 Select all (For EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley) (For BibTex) Front Matter (pp. Larry Lessig calls law professor Yochai Benkler 'the leading intellectual of the information age.' He studies the commons - including such shareable spaces as the radio spectrum, as well as our shared bodies of knowledge and how we access and change them.

The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler