The Wealth of Networks - How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom : How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

Acknowledgments ix 1. Introduction: A Moment of Opportunity and Challenge 1 Part One. The Networked Information Economy 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 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 11. The Battle Over the Institutional Ecology of the Digital Environment 383 12. Conclusion: The Stakes of Information Law and Policy 460 Notes 475 Index 491