Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler [1] is the pioneering thinker, who has introduced the concept of Commons-based peer production, and is specialising in the development of a 'sharing economy'

The Sharing Economy, essay at http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/114-2/Benkler_FINAL_YLJ114-2.pdf

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

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://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?52+Duke+L.+J.+1245/)