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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... software development and investigative reporting, avant-garde video and multiplayer online games. Together, they hint at the emergence of a new information environment, one in which individuals are free to take a more active role than ...
... software development and investigative reporting, avant-garde video and multiplayer online games. Together, they hint at the emergence of a new information environment, one in which individuals are free to take a more active role than ...
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... free software has prompted some leading-edge economists to try to understand why many thousands of loosely networked free software developers can compete with Microsoft at its own game and produce a massive operating system—GNU/Linux ...
... free software has prompted some leading-edge economists to try to understand why many thousands of loosely networked free software developers can compete with Microsoft at its own game and produce a massive operating system—GNU/Linux ...
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... free access to a set of the basic instrumentalities of economic opportunity and the basic outputs of the information ... software utilities makes it easier for poor and middle-income countries to obtain core software capabilities. More ...
... free access to a set of the basic instrumentalities of economic opportunity and the basic outputs of the information ... software utilities makes it easier for poor and middle-income countries to obtain core software capabilities. More ...
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... free for all to use and biased in their availability in favor of none? To ... software and standards—necessary to translate what human beings want to say ... free societies, but they are structured to enable action that is not based on ...
... free for all to use and biased in their availability in favor of none? To ... software and standards—necessary to translate what human beings want to say ... free societies, but they are structured to enable action that is not based on ...
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... free as advertisements fcr touring and charge money for performance; software developers vvho develop software and make money from customizing it to a particular client. on-site management, advice and training, not from licensing} or ...
... free as advertisements fcr touring and charge money for performance; software developers vvho develop software and make money from customizing it to a particular client. on-site management, advice and training, not from licensing} or ...
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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