Israeli-American legal scholar who developed the theory of commons-based peer production — arguing that networked information production represents a fundamental shift in economic organization.
The Wealth of Networks: commons-based peer production (Linux, Wikipedia) is a new mode of economic production — not market-based or hierarchical-firm-based but collaborative and distributed. Network freedom: the political and economic freedom enabled by decentralized information infrastructure. The Penguin and the Leviathan: cooperation is more common than competition.
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