This semester, our class on Internet, Law and Politics has been led through the power of new networks to affect politics by a new book, the Wealth of Networks, by Yochai Benkler. This book is bound to be one of the most important statements on technology and politics of this generation. It’s our great pleasure to welcome Prof. Benkler to HLS tomorrow night in person. We hope you will join us.
Festivities begin on Tuesday late afternoon, April 18, 2006, at 5:45 p.m. for a short talk by Yochai Benkler in Hauser Hall room 102 at Harvard Law School, and then a party in honor and in celebration of his new book at the Berkman Center immediately thereafter (at 1587 Mass Ave, Cambridge). Prof. Benkler has recently published his book, “*The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom*,” through the Yale University Press.
Prof. Benkler’s research at Yale Law School focuses on the effects of laws that regulate information production and exchange on the distribution of control over information flows, knowledge, and culture in the digital environment. His particular focus has been the neglected role of commons-based approaches toward management of resources in the digitally networked environment, the increasing importance of nonmarket production in general and collaborative peer production in particular, and the significance of these phenomena in both economic and political terms. “The Wealth of Networks” is a comprehensive social theory of the Internet and the networked information economy. In it, Benkler describes how patterns of information, knowledge, and cultural production are changing—and shows that the way information and knowledge are made available can either limit or enlarge the ways people can create and express themselves.
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