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Information, knowledge, and culture are central to human freedom and human development.

Yochai Benkler

Information, knowledge, and culture are central to human freedom and human development.

In either case, the practical individual freedom to cooperate with others in making things of value was limited by the extent of the capital requirements of production.

Yochai Benkler

In either case, the practical individual freedom to cooperate with others in making things of value was limited by the extent of the capital requirements of production.

About Author
Yochai Benkler (; born 1964) is an Israeli-American author and the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He is also a faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. In academia he is best known for coining the term commons-based peer production and his widely cited 2006 book The Wealth of Networks.

The influence in the right-wing media ecosystem, whether judged by hyperlinks, Twitter sharing, or Facebook sharing, is both highly skewed to the far right and highly insulated from other segments of...

Yochai Benkler

The influence in the right-wing media ecosystem, whether judged by hyperlinks, Twitter sharing, or Facebook sharing, is both highly skewed to the far right and highly insulated from other segments of...

Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wieldin...

Yochai Benkler

Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wieldin...

Tags: decisions, legal

We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could...

Yochai Benkler

We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could...

Tags: fear, power, fight

Any person who has information can connect with any other person who wants it, and anyone who wants to make it mean something in some context, can do so.

Yochai Benkler

Any person who has information can connect with any other person who wants it, and anyone who wants to make it mean something in some context, can do so.

As collaboration among far-flung individuals becomes more common, the idea of doing things that require cooperation with others becomes much more attainable, and the range of projects individuals can...

Yochai Benkler

As collaboration among far-flung individuals becomes more common, the idea of doing things that require cooperation with others becomes much more attainable, and the range of projects individuals can...

From the steam engine to the assembly line, from the double-rotary printing press to the communications satellite, the capital constraints on action were such that simply wanting to do something was r...

Yochai Benkler

From the steam engine to the assembly line, from the double-rotary printing press to the communications satellite, the capital constraints on action were such that simply wanting to do something was r...

One needs only to run a Google search on any subject of interest to see how the information good that is the response to one's query is produced by the coordinate effects of the uncoordinated actions...

Yochai Benkler

One needs only to run a Google search on any subject of interest to see how the information good that is the response to one's query is produced by the coordinate effects of the uncoordinated actions...

The removal of the physical constraints on effective information production has made human creativity and the economics of information itself the core structuring facts in the new networked informatio...

Yochai Benkler

The removal of the physical constraints on effective information production has made human creativity and the economics of information itself the core structuring facts in the new networked informatio...

There is no guarantee that networked information technology will lead to the improvements in innovation, freedom, and justice that I suggest are possible. That is a choice we face as a society. The wa...

Yochai Benkler

There is no guarantee that networked information technology will lead to the improvements in innovation, freedom, and justice that I suggest are possible. That is a choice we face as a society. The wa...

They can create their own expressions, and they can seek out the information they need, with substantially less dependence on the commercial mass media of the twentieth century.

Yochai Benkler

They can create their own expressions, and they can seek out the information they need, with substantially less dependence on the commercial mass media of the twentieth century.

Why can fifty thousand volunteers successfully coauthor Wikipedia, the most serious online alternative to the Encyclopedia Britannica, and then turn around and give it away for free?

Yochai Benkler

Why can fifty thousand volunteers successfully coauthor Wikipedia, the most serious online alternative to the Encyclopedia Britannica, and then turn around and give it away for free?

Why do we rely almost exclusively on markets and commercial firms to produce cars, steel, and wheat, but much less so for the most critical information our advanced societies depend on?

Yochai Benkler

Why do we rely almost exclusively on markets and commercial firms to produce cars, steel, and wheat, but much less so for the most critical information our advanced societies depend on?

There is remarkably little support in economics for regulating information, knowledge, and cultural production through the tools of intellectual property law.

Yochai Benkler

There is remarkably little support in economics for regulating information, knowledge, and cultural production through the tools of intellectual property law.

To speak of polarization is to assume symmetry. No fact emerges more clearly from our analysis of how four million political stories were linked, tweeted, and shared over a three-year period than that...

Yochai Benkler

To speak of polarization is to assume symmetry. No fact emerges more clearly from our analysis of how four million political stories were linked, tweeted, and shared over a three-year period than that...