The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler

But these results are by no means inevitable: 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.

Chapter 12: Conclusion: The Stakes of Information Law and Policy (1).

Chapter 11: The Battle Over the Institutional Ecology of the Digital Environment (0).

Part III: Policies of Freedom at a Moment of Transformation (0).

Chapter 10: Social Ties: Networking Together (1).Chapter 8: Cultural Freedom: A Culture Both Plastic and Critical (0).Chapter 7: Political Freedom Part 2: Emergence of the Networked Public Sphere (1).Chapter 6: Political Freedom Part 1: The Trouble with Mass Media (1).Chapter 5: Individual Freedom: Autonomy, Information, and Law (1).Part II: The Political Economy of Property and Commons (0).Chapter 4: The Economics of Social Production (1).

Chapter 3: Peer Production and Sharing (0).Chapter 2: Some Basic Economics of Information Production and Innovation (4).Part I: The Networked Information Economy (0).Chapter 1: Introduction: A Moment of Opportunity and Challenge (4).

The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler