Table of Contents

The Wealth of Networks

by Yochai Benkler

• 1. Introduction: A Moment of Opportunity and Challenge 1

• Part One. The Networked Information Economy 29
  • 2. Some Basic Economics of Information Production and Innovation 35
  • 3. Peer Production and Sharing 59
  • 4. The Economics of Social Production 91

• Part Two. The Political Economy of Property and Commons 129
  • 5. Individual Freedom: Autonomy, Information, and Law 133
  • 6. Political Freedom Part 1: The Trouble with Mass Media 176
  • 7. Political Freedom Part 2: Emergence of the Networked Public Sphere 212
  • 8. Cultural Freedom: A Culture Both Plastic and Critical 273
  • 9. Justice and Development 301
  • 10. Social Ties: Networking Together 356

• Part Three. Policies of Freedom at a Moment of Transformation 379
  • 11. The Battle Over the Institutional Ecology of the Digital Environment 383
  • 12. Conclusion: The Stakes of Information Law and Policy 460
• Notes 475

• Front Matter

• Epigraph: John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
• Acknowledgments
• Library of Congress data

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