The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and FreedomYale University Press, 2006 M01 1 - 515 pages Simon Bolivar was a revolutionary who freed six countries, an intellectual who argued the principles of national liberation, and a general who fought a cruel colonial war. His life, passions, battles and great victories became embedded in Spanish American culture almost as soon as they happened. This is the first major English-language biography of 'The Liberator' in half a century. John Lynch draws on extensive research on the man and his era to tell Bolivar's story, to understand his life in the context of his own society and times, and to explore his remarkable and enduring legacy. The book illuminates the inner world of Bolivar, the dynamics of his leadership, his power to command, and his modes of ruling the diverse peoples of Spanish America. The key to his greatness, Lynch concludes, was supreme will power and an ability to inspire people to follow him beyond their immediate interests, in some cases through years of unremitting struggle. Encompassing Bolivar's entire life and his many accomplishments, this is the definitive account of a towering figure in the history of the western hemisphere. |
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... owners of the basic means of information production and exchange a mere two decades ago. The removal of the physical constraints on effective information production has made human creativity and the economics of information itself the ...
... owners of the basic means of information production and exchange a mere two decades ago. The removal of the physical constraints on effective information production has made human creativity and the economics of information itself the ...
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... individuals are less susceptible to manipulation by a legally defined class of others—the owners of communications infrastructure and media. The networked information economy provides varied alternative Enhanced Autonomy.
... individuals are less susceptible to manipulation by a legally defined class of others—the owners of communications infrastructure and media. The networked information economy provides varied alternative Enhanced Autonomy.
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... owner to select what others view, and thereby to affect their perceptions of what they can and cannot do. Moreover, the diversity of perspectives on the way the world is and the way it could be for any given individual is qualitatively ...
... owner to select what others view, and thereby to affect their perceptions of what they can and cannot do. Moreover, the diversity of perspectives on the way the world is and the way it could be for any given individual is qualitatively ...
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... owners inordinate power to shape opinion and information. This power they can either use themselves or sell to the highest bidder. And third, whenever the owners of commercial media choose not to exercise their power in this way, they ...
... owners inordinate power to shape opinion and information. This power they can either use themselves or sell to the highest bidder. And third, whenever the owners of commercial media choose not to exercise their power in this way, they ...
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... owners of digital copyrighted works. Should this effort succeed, the core characteristic of computers—that they are general-purpose devices whose abilities can be configured and changed over time by their owners as uses and preferences ...
... owners of digital copyrighted works. Should this effort succeed, the core characteristic of computers—that they are general-purpose devices whose abilities can be configured and changed over time by their owners as uses and preferences ...
Contents
Part Two The Political Economy ofProperty and Commons | |
Autonomy Information and Law | |
ACulture Both Plastic and Critical | |
Chapter 9 Justice and Development | |
NetworkingTogether | |
Part Three Policies of Freedom at aMoment of Transformation | |
Chapter 11 The Battle Over theInstitutional Ecology of theDigital Environment | |
The Stakesof Information Law and Policy | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom Yochai Benkler No preview available - 2006 |
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom Yochai Benkler No preview available - 2006 |
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