The Wealth of Networks
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom is an English book by Yochai Benkler . It was published in Yale University Press on April 3, 2006 .
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A central idea of the book is " Commons-based Peer Production ", a collaborative form of production oriented towards common goods. In the book, Benkler hypothesizes that a culture in which information is freely exchanged could prove to be more economically efficient than one in which innovations are made more difficult by patents and copyright. In the modes of production of the information economy, which are based on collective learning and sharing of knowledge ("information sharing"), he sees a third type of economic production alongside markets and a centrally planned economy .
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The work is published under the Creative Commons Noncommercial Sharealike License and can be downloaded as a PDF file.
The title alludes to the book The Wealth of Nations . This book, published by the economist Adam Smith in 1776, contributed to the end of the mercantilism that had prevailed until then in economic policy .
See also
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- The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom , Yochai Benkler, Yale University Press, ISBN 0300125771
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yochai Benkler: “Sharing Nicely”, The Yale Law Journal, vol. 114, p. 273 ff.
- ↑ Bernd Lutterbeck: “Open Source Communities and Intellectual Property”, PDF ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Main_Page
