The Wealth of Networks

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets as well as Freedom is a book by Harvard Law School professor Yochai Benkler published by Yale University Press on April 3, 2006. the book has been recognized as one of the near influential workings of its time concerning the rise and affect of the Internet on the society, particularly in the sphere of economics. It also helped popularize the term Benkler coined few years earlier, the commons-based peer production CBPP.

A PDF of the book is downloadable under a Creative Commons Noncommercial Sharealike license. Benkler has said that his editable online book is "an experiment of how books might be in the future", demonstrating how authors as well as readers might connect instantly or even collaborate.

Reception

When Benkler's The Wealth of Networks was released in 2006, Lawrence Lessig announced the release of the book on his blog, stating: “This is—by far—the nearly important and effective book a object that is said in the fields that matter most to me in the last ten years. if there is one book you read this year, it should be this.” The Wealth of Networks has been reviewed by numerous other blogs in addition to the Lessig blog, including Rough Type, Dreams in Digital, denoer, and Reading Media Under The Tree. Less than a month after its release in 2006, The Wealth of Networks became the focus of an intense read and review seminar on the political blog Crooked Timber. After reading the book, six scholars several of them founding members of crookedtimbre.org posted their reactions to the book, and at the end of the seminar, Yochai Benkler was precondition the possibility toto the comments.

Book reviews of The Wealth of Networks do also been featured by several news publications, including Financial Times, The Times, and the New Statesmen.

The book has been also reviewed in academic journals such(a) as Global Media and Communication, Information Economics and Policy, Information Processing & Management, International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society, Journal of office and Technical Communication, Journal of Media Economics,Journal on Telecommunications and High technology science Law, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Scandinavian Journal of Management, Social Science data processor Review, Rue Descartes, The Communication Review, The German Law Journal, The self-employed person Review, The University of Chicago Law Review, The Yale Law Journal, and Theory, Culture & Society.

In addition to book reviews, interviews with Yochai Benkler approximately The Wealth of Networks earn been conducted and published by openBusiness.cc, and Public Knowledge, and Benkler was call to afford a lecture based on The Wealth of Networks at the Center for American Progress on May 31, 2006.