The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler

It underlies the efficiency and sustainability of nonproprietary production in the networked information economy.

Increased practical individual autonomy has been central to my claims throughout this book. The Internet as a Platform for Human Connection 'Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable.'įrom 'Virtual Communities' to Fear of DisintegrationĪ More Positive Picture Emerges Over Time 'Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.' This online version has been created under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike license - see - and has been reformatted and designated as recommended reading for the NGO Committee on Education of CONGO - the Conference Of Non- Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations - in conjunction with the Committee's commitment to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World and related international Decades, agreements, conventions and treaties.

The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler