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

Abstract

Ϫ1 0 ϩ1This book has been more than a decade in the making.Its roots go back to 1993-1994: long nights of conversations, as only graduate students can have, with Niva Elkin Koren about democracy in cyberspace; a series of formative conversations with Mitch Kapor; a couple of madly imaginative sessions with Charlie Nesson; and a moment of true understanding with Eben Moglen.Equally central from around that time, but at an angle, were a paper under Terry Fisher's guidance on nineteenth-century homesteading