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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... important cooperative and coordinate action carried out through radically distributed, nonmarket mechanisms that do not depend on proprietary strategies—plays a much greater role than it did, or could have, in the industrial information ...
... important cooperative and coordinate action carried out through radically distributed, nonmarket mechanisms that do not depend on proprietary strategies—plays a much greater role than it did, or could have, in the industrial information ...
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... important to the information production system. Second, we have in fact seen the rise of nonmarket production to much greater importance. Individuals can reach and inform or edify millions around the world. Such a reach was simply ...
... important to the information production system. Second, we have in fact seen the rise of nonmarket production to much greater importance. Individuals can reach and inform or edify millions around the world. Such a reach was simply ...
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... important to many people were constrained by the physical capital requirements of making them. From the steam engine ... importance of nonmarket production has become so counterintuitive to people living in market-based economies at the ...
... important to many people were constrained by the physical capital requirements of making them. From the steam engine ... importance of nonmarket production has become so counterintuitive to people living in market-based economies at the ...
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... important consideration in thinking about whether, for example, to democratize wheat production or make it more egalitarian. Efforts to push workplace democracy have also often foundered on the shoals—real or imagined—of these limits ...
... important consideration in thinking about whether, for example, to democratize wheat production or make it more egalitarian. Efforts to push workplace democracy have also often foundered on the shoals—real or imagined—of these limits ...
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... important to understand that any consideration of the democratizing effects of the Internet must measure its effects as compared to the commercial, mass-mediabased public sphere, not as compared to an idealized utopia that we embraced a ...
... important to understand that any consideration of the democratizing effects of the Internet must measure its effects as compared to the commercial, mass-mediabased public sphere, not as compared to an idealized utopia that we embraced a ...
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 |
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