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'''Yochai Benkler''', law professor at the Yale Law School, is the pioneering thinker, who has introduced the concept of Commons-based peer production, and is specialising in the development of a 'sharing economy'
'''Distinguished lawyer of the Internet and information goods; introduced the concept of [[Commons-Based Peer Production]]; specialised in the development of a "[[Sharing Economy]]" and [[Platform Cooperativism]]"'''


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=Bio=
* http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Yochai_benkler_boalt_high-res.JPG
* http://flickr.com/photos/joi/536642630/


'''1.'''
==Bio==


Benkler's book The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom examines the ways in which information technology permits extensive forms of collaboration that may potentially have transformative consequences for economy and society. The Wikipedia, Creative Commons, Open Source Software and the blogosphere are among the examples that Benker draws upon.
'''from [http://benkler.org/Bio.html his own bio page] 2017-01'''


(bio from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yochai_Benkler )
Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Since the 1990s he has played a role in characterizing the role of information commons and decentralized collaboration to innovation, information production, and freedom in the networked economy and society. His books include The Wealth of Networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom (Yale University Press 2006), which won academic awards from the American Political Science Association, the American Sociological Association, and the McGannon award for social and ethical relevance in communications. In 2012 he received a lifetime achievement award from Oxford University “in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to the study and public understanding of the Internet and information goods.” His work is socially engaged, winning him the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award in 2011, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for 2007, and the Public Knowledge IP3 Award in 2006. It is also anchored in the realities of markets, and was cited as "perhaps the best work yet about the fast moving, enthusiast-driven Internet" by the Financial Times and named best business book about the future in 2006 by Strategy and Business. Benkler has advised governments and international organizations on innovation policy and telecommunications, and serves on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofits engaged in working towards an open society. His work can be freely accessed at benkler.org. 


Contact Info
==Discussion==
Yale Law School
P.O. Box
New Haven, CT 06520
yochai.benkler@yale.edu
Teaching subjects:  Information law and policy in the digital environment; communications law; intellectual property.
 
Education LL.B., Tel-Aviv University, 1991
J.D., Harvard, 1994
 
Professional Positions Editor, Harvard Law Review


Associate, Ropes & Gray,
'''Citation on the political positioning of Yochai Benkler:'''
 
Law Clerk for the Honorable Stephen G. Breyer, U.S. Supreme Court,
 
Assistant Professor, NYU,
 
Associate Professor, NYU,
 
Professor, NYU,
 
Professor, Yale, 2003-
((bio from http://www.law.yale.edu/outside/html/faculty/yb32/profile.htm )
 
 
'''2.'''
 
Via Geert Callens:
 
"Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Since the 1990s he has played a role in characterizing the role of information commons and decentralized collaboration to innovation, information production, and freedom in the networked economy and society. His books include The Wealth of Networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom (Yale University Press 2006), which won academic awards from the American Political Science Association, the American Sociological Association, and the McGannon award for social and ethical relevance in communications. In 2012 he received a lifetime achievement award from Oxford University“in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to the study and public understanding of the Internet and information goods.” His work is socially engaged, winning him the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award in 2011, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for 2007, and the Public Knowledge IP3 Award in 2006. It is also anchored in the realities of markets, and was cited as "perhaps the best work yet about the fast moving, enthusiast-driven Internet" by the Financial Times and named best business book about the future in 2006 by Strategy and Business. Benkler has advised governments and international organizations on innovation policy and telecommunications, and serves on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofits engaged in working towards an open society.His work can be freely access at benkler.org. "


=Discussion=
"'''None of this is to say that nonmarket and decentralized production will completely displace firms and markets. That is not the point. The point is that the networked information economy makes it possible for nonmarket and decentralized models of production to increase their presence alongside the more traditional models, causing some displacement, but increasing the diversity of ways of organizing production rather than replacing one with the other. This diversity of ways of organizing production and consumption, in turn, opens a range of new opportunities for pursuing core political values of liberal societies -- democracy, individual freedom, and social justice'''." <br />
 
(http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1191&context=dlj)
'''Citation on the political positioning of Yochai Benkler:'''




"'''None of this is to say that nonmarket and decentralized production will completely displace firms and markets. That is not the point. The point is that the networked information economy makes it possible for nonmarket and decentralized models of production to increase their presence alongside the more traditional models, causing some displacement, but increasing the diversity of ways of organizing production rather than replacing one with the other.This diversity of ways of organizing production and consumption, in turn, opens a range of new opportunities for pursuing core political values of liberal societies -- democracy, individual freedom, and social justice'''."
More:
(http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?52+Duke+L.+J.+1245/)


Interview of the author Yochai Benkler by Business Week, at http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_25/b3938902.htm  
* Interview of the author Yochai Benkler by Business Week, at http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_25/b3938902.htm  


Interview in Open Democracy, by Christian Ahlert, at
* Interview in Open Democracy, by Christian Ahlert, at
http://www.opendemocracy.net/media-copyrightlaw/benkler_3487.jsp
http://www.opendemocracy.net/media-copyrightlaw/benkler_3487.jsp


=Podcasts of Yochai Benkler=
==Yochai Benkler's writings on peer production==
Berkman Center http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/audio/uploads/12/58/benkler_2006-04-24.mp3


PopTech 2005 http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail776.html
===[[Coase's Penguin]], or Linux and the Nature of the Firm (2001)===


=Yochai Benkler's writings on peer production=
URL = https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9238/534e7836ce094b2498b3587b10c89b733afe.pdf


'''Coase’s Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm.'''
===The Political Economy of the Commons (2003)===


URL = http://www.yale.edu/yalelj/112/BenklerWEB.pdf  
URL = http://www.benkler.org/Upgrade-Novatica%20Commons.pdf


The concept of Information Commons is defined by Yochai Benkler in "The Political Economy of Commons", in Upgrade, juin 2003, vol. IV, n° 3


'''The Political Economy of the Commons'''
===[[Sharing Nicely]]: On Shareable Goods and the Emergence of Sharing as a Modality of Economic Production (2004)===


URL = http://www.upgrade-cepis.org/issues/2003/3/up4-3Benkler.pdf
URLs:
* http://www.yalelawjournal.org/essay/sharing-nicely-on-shareable-goods-and-the-emergence-of-sharing-as-a-modality-of-economic-production
* http://benkler.org/SharingNicely.html


The concept of Information Commons is defined by Yochai Benchler in "The Political Economy of Commons", in Upgrade, juin 2003, vol. IV, n° 3
"The paper offers a framework to explain large scale effective practices of sharing private, excludable goods. It starts with case studies of distributed computing and carpooling as motivating problems. It then suggests a definition for “shareable goods‿ as goods that are lumpy and mid-grained in size, and explains why goods with these characteristics will have systematic overcapacity relative to the requirements of their owners. The paper then uses comparative transaction costs analysis, focused on information characteristics in particular, combined with an analysis of diversity of motivations, to suggest when social sharing will be better than secondary markets to reallocate this overcapacity to non-owners who require the functionality. The paper concludes with broader observations about the role of sharing as a modality of economic production as compared to markets and hierarchies (whether states or firms), with a particular emphasis on sharing practices among individuals who are strangers or weakly related, its relationship to technological change, and some implications for contemporary policy choices regarding wireless regulation, intellectual property, and communications network design."


===Freedom in the Commons: Towards a Political Economy of Information (2003)===


'''Sharing Nicely: On Shareable Goods and the Emergence of Sharing as a Modality of Economic Production.'''
URL = http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1191&context=dlj


URL = http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/114-2/Benkler_FINAL_YLJ114-2.pdf
"None of this is to say that nonmarket and decentralized production will completely displace firms and markets. That is not the point. The point is that the networked information economy makes it possible for nonmarket and decentralized models of production to increase their presence ''alongside'' the more traditional models, causing some displacement, but increasing the diversity of ways of organizing production rather than replacing one with the other. This diversity of ways of organizing production and consumption, in turn, opens a range of new opportunities for pursuing core political values of liberal societies -- democracy, individual freedom, and social justice."


"The paper offers a framework to explain large scale effective practices of sharing private, excludable goods. It starts with case studies of distributed computing and carpooling as motivating problems. It then suggests a definition for “shareable goods‿ as goods that are lumpy and mid-grained in size, and explains why goods with these characteristics will have systematic overcapacity relative to the requirements of their owners. The paper then uses comparative transaction costs analysis, focused on information characteristics in particular, combined with an analysis of diversity of motivations, to suggest when social sharing will be better than secondary markets to reallocate this overcapacity to non-owners who require the functionality. The paper concludes with broader observations about the role of sharing as a modality of economic production as compared to markets and hierarchies (whether states or firms), with a particular emphasis on sharing practices among individuals who are strangers or weakly related, its relationship to technological change, and some implications for contemporary policy choices regarding wireless regulation, intellectual property, and communications network design."
===Print Versions===
(http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/114-2/Benkler_FINAL_YLJ114-2.pdf )


Selected Articles "Coase's Penguins, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm," 112 Yale Law Journal


'''Freedom in the Commons: Towards a Political Economy of Information'''
"Freedom in the Commons, Towards a Political Economy of Information," 52 Duke L.J.


URL = http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?52+Duke+L.+J.+1245/
"Overcoming Agoraphobia: Building the Commons of the Digitally Networked Environment," 11 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology


"None of this is to say that nonmarket and decentralized production will completely displace firms and markets. That is not the point. The point is that the networked information economy makes it possible for nonmarket and decentralized models of production to increase their presence alongside the more traditional models, causing some displacement, but increasing the diversity of ways of organizing production rather than replacing one with the other.This diversity of ways of organizing production and consumption, in turn, opens a range of new opportunities for pursuing core political values of liberal societies -- democracy, individual freedom, and social justice."
==Key Books==
(http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?52+Duke+L.+J.+1245/)


Yochai Benkler. The [[Wealth of Networks]]. Yale University Press, 2006 [http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/index.php/Main_Page]


'''Print Versions'''
==Podcasts of Yochai Benkler==
Berkman Center http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/audio/uploads/12/58/benkler_2006-04-24.mp3


Selected Articles "Coase's Penguins, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm," 112 Yale Law Journal)
PopTech 2005 http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail776.html
 
"Freedom in the Commons, Towards a Political Economy of Information," 52 Duke L.J.)
 
"Overcoming Agoraphobia: Building the Commons of the Digitally Networked Environment," 11 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology)
 
=Key Books=


Yochai Benkler. The [[Wealth of Networks]]. Yale University Press, 2006 [http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/index.php/Main_Page]
==More Information==
===Pages on this wiki (video webcasts, podcasts etc.)===
* [[Yochai Benkler on Autonomy, Control in Cultural Experience]] - video, 2007
* [[Yochai Benkler on Conflicts in Cultural Production]] - video, 2007
* [[Yochai Benkler on the End of Universal Rationality]] - video, 2009
* [[Yochai Benkler on How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest]] - video / audio, 2011
* [[Yochai Benkler on Net Neutrality, Competition, and the Future of the Internet]] - audio, 2010
* [[Yochai Benkler on the New Open-Source Economics]]
* [[Yochai Benkler on Open-Source Economics]] - video (TED), 2008
* [[Yochai Benkler on the Participation Revolution]] - audio, 2005
* [[Yochai Benkler on Peer Mutualism]]
* [[Yochai Benkler on Peer Production]]
* [[Yochai Benkler on Property, Commons, and Cooperative Human Systems Design]]
* [[Yochai Benkler on the Role of New Media for 21th Cy Journalism]] - text
* [[Yochai Benkler on the Science and Practice of Cooperation]]
* [[Yochai Benkler on Successful Internet Rights Activism]] - video, 2012
* [[Yochai Benkler on the Wealth of Networks]] - audio, 2006
* [[Yochai Benkler on What Comes After the Era of Hobbesian Selfishness]] - video, 2009


===External links===
* [http://benkler.org/ His own web site]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yochai_Benkler Entry on Wikipedia]
* [http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10071/Benkler page at Harvard Law School]
* [https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/ybenkler page at Berkman Klein Center]
* [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Yochai+Benkler YouTube video search]


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Distinguished lawyer of the Internet and information goods; introduced the concept of Commons-Based Peer Production; specialised in the development of a "Sharing Economy" and Platform Cooperativism"

Photo links:

Bio

from his own bio page 2017-01

Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Since the 1990s he has played a role in characterizing the role of information commons and decentralized collaboration to innovation, information production, and freedom in the networked economy and society. His books include The Wealth of Networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom (Yale University Press 2006), which won academic awards from the American Political Science Association, the American Sociological Association, and the McGannon award for social and ethical relevance in communications. In 2012 he received a lifetime achievement award from Oxford University “in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to the study and public understanding of the Internet and information goods.” His work is socially engaged, winning him the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award in 2011, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for 2007, and the Public Knowledge IP3 Award in 2006. It is also anchored in the realities of markets, and was cited as "perhaps the best work yet about the fast moving, enthusiast-driven Internet" by the Financial Times and named best business book about the future in 2006 by Strategy and Business. Benkler has advised governments and international organizations on innovation policy and telecommunications, and serves on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofits engaged in working towards an open society. His work can be freely accessed at benkler.org.

Discussion

Citation on the political positioning of Yochai Benkler:

"None of this is to say that nonmarket and decentralized production will completely displace firms and markets. That is not the point. The point is that the networked information economy makes it possible for nonmarket and decentralized models of production to increase their presence alongside the more traditional models, causing some displacement, but increasing the diversity of ways of organizing production rather than replacing one with the other. This diversity of ways of organizing production and consumption, in turn, opens a range of new opportunities for pursuing core political values of liberal societies -- democracy, individual freedom, and social justice."
(http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1191&context=dlj)


More:

  • Interview in Open Democracy, by Christian Ahlert, at

http://www.opendemocracy.net/media-copyrightlaw/benkler_3487.jsp

Yochai Benkler's writings on peer production

Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm (2001)

URL = https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9238/534e7836ce094b2498b3587b10c89b733afe.pdf

The Political Economy of the Commons (2003)

URL = http://www.benkler.org/Upgrade-Novatica%20Commons.pdf

The concept of Information Commons is defined by Yochai Benkler in "The Political Economy of Commons", in Upgrade, juin 2003, vol. IV, n° 3

Sharing Nicely: On Shareable Goods and the Emergence of Sharing as a Modality of Economic Production (2004)

URLs:

"The paper offers a framework to explain large scale effective practices of sharing private, excludable goods. It starts with case studies of distributed computing and carpooling as motivating problems. It then suggests a definition for “shareable goods‿ as goods that are lumpy and mid-grained in size, and explains why goods with these characteristics will have systematic overcapacity relative to the requirements of their owners. The paper then uses comparative transaction costs analysis, focused on information characteristics in particular, combined with an analysis of diversity of motivations, to suggest when social sharing will be better than secondary markets to reallocate this overcapacity to non-owners who require the functionality. The paper concludes with broader observations about the role of sharing as a modality of economic production as compared to markets and hierarchies (whether states or firms), with a particular emphasis on sharing practices among individuals who are strangers or weakly related, its relationship to technological change, and some implications for contemporary policy choices regarding wireless regulation, intellectual property, and communications network design."

Freedom in the Commons: Towards a Political Economy of Information (2003)

URL = http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1191&context=dlj

"None of this is to say that nonmarket and decentralized production will completely displace firms and markets. That is not the point. The point is that the networked information economy makes it possible for nonmarket and decentralized models of production to increase their presence alongside the more traditional models, causing some displacement, but increasing the diversity of ways of organizing production rather than replacing one with the other. This diversity of ways of organizing production and consumption, in turn, opens a range of new opportunities for pursuing core political values of liberal societies -- democracy, individual freedom, and social justice."

Print Versions

Selected Articles "Coase's Penguins, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm," 112 Yale Law Journal

"Freedom in the Commons, Towards a Political Economy of Information," 52 Duke L.J.

"Overcoming Agoraphobia: Building the Commons of the Digitally Networked Environment," 11 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology

Key Books

Yochai Benkler. The Wealth of Networks. Yale University Press, 2006 [1]

Podcasts of Yochai Benkler

Berkman Center http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/audio/uploads/12/58/benkler_2006-04-24.mp3

PopTech 2005 http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail776.html

More Information

Pages on this wiki (video webcasts, podcasts etc.)

External links

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