The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler

Supreme Court justice without having prior judicial clerkship experience. Benkler is the last person to clerk for a U.S. He worked at the law firm Ropes & Gray from 1994–1995. from Tel-Aviv University in 1991 and J.D. He is also a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.įrom 1984 to 1987, Benkler was a member and treasurer of the Kibbutz Shizafon. Yochai Benkler (born 1964) is an Israeli-American author and the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. 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 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.

The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler