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

2007/05/01 by Lior Strahilevitz, Yochai Roberts Benkler · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Economic Theory and Institutions #Political Economy and Marxism #Production (economics) #Social production #Business #Economics #Microeconomics #Sociology #Social science

paper · doi:10.2307/20455766

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Abstract

Ϫ1 0 ϩ1This book has been more than a decade in the making.Its roots go back to 1993-1994: long nights of conversations, as only graduate students can have, with Niva Elkin Koren about democracy in cyberspace; a series of formative conversations with Mitch Kapor; a couple of madly imaginative sessions with Charlie Nesson; and a moment of true understanding with Eben Moglen.Equally central from around that time, but at an angle, were a paper under Terry Fisher's guidance on nineteenth-century homesteading

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• The Wealth of Networks [wikipedia]