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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... role of property and economic organization in the construction of human freedom. It was Frank Michelman who taught me that the hard trick was to do so as a liberal. Since then, I have been fortunate in many and diverse intellectual ...
... role of property and economic organization in the construction of human freedom. It was Frank Michelman who taught me that the hard trick was to do so as a liberal. Since then, I have been fortunate in many and diverse intellectual ...
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... role of nonmarket and nonproprietary production, both by individuals alone and by cooperative efforts in a wide range of loosely or tightly woven collaborations. These newly emerging practices have seen remarkable success in areas as ...
... role of nonmarket and nonproprietary production, both by individuals alone and by cooperative efforts in a wide range of loosely or tightly woven collaborations. These newly emerging practices have seen remarkable success in areas as ...
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... role for nonmarket production in the information and cultural production sector, organized in a radically more decentralized pattern than was true of this sector in the twentieth century. The first shift means that these new patterns of ...
... role for nonmarket production in the information and cultural production sector, organized in a radically more decentralized pattern than was true of this sector in the twentieth century. The first shift means that these new patterns of ...
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... role in authoring their own lives, by enabling them to perceive a broader range of possibilities, and by providing them a richer baseline against which to measure the choices they in fact make. Democracy: The Networked Public Sphere The ...
... role in authoring their own lives, by enabling them to perceive a broader range of possibilities, and by providing them a richer baseline against which to measure the choices they in fact make. Democracy: The Networked Public Sphere The ...
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... role of money as a precondition to the ability to speak publicly. Justice and Human Development Information, knowledge, and information-rich goods and tools play a significant role in economic opportunity and human development. While ...
... role of money as a precondition to the ability to speak publicly. Justice and Human Development Information, knowledge, and information-rich goods and tools play a significant role in economic opportunity and human development. While ...
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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