the wealth of networks by yochai benkler

Eli Noam was the first to point out that, even if one did not buy the idea that computationally intensive radios eliminated scarcity, they still rendered spectrum property rights obsolete, and enabled instead a fluid, dynamic, real-time market in spectrum clearance rights. Both statements focused on the potential abundance of spectrum, and how it renders 'spectrum management' obsolete. The policy implications of computationally intensive radios using wide bands were first raised by George Gilder in 'The New Rule of the Wireless,' Forbes ASAP, March 29, 1993, and Paul Baran, 'Visions of the 21st Century Communications: Is the Shortage of Radio Spectrum for Broadband Networks of the Future a Self Made Problem?' (keynote talk transcript, 8th Annual Conference on Next Generation Networks, Washington, DC, November 9, 1994). For an excellent overview of the intellectual history of this debate and a contribution to the institutional design necessary to make space for this change, see Kevin Werbach, 'Supercommons: Towards a Unified Theory of Wireless Communication,' Texas Law Review 82 (2004): 863. For the full argument, see Yochai Benkler, 'Some Economics of Wireless Communications,' Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 16 (2002): 25 and Yochai Benkler, 'Overcoming Agoraphobia: Building the Commons of the Digitally Networked Environment,' Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 11 (1998): 287. IBM Collaborative User Experience Research Group, History Flows: Results (2003), ġ1. Yochai Benkler, 'Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm,' Yale Law Journal 112 (2001): 369.ġ0. Giles, 'Special Report: Internet Encyclopedias Go Head to Head,' Nature, December 14, 2005, available at. Gulick, Can Distributed Volunteers Accomplish Massive Data Analysis Tasks?.

Clickworkers Results: Crater Marking Activity, July 3, 2001. The figure is computed out of the data reported in this paper for the number of free software development projects that Lerner and Tirole identify as having 'restrictive' or 'very restrictive' licenses.Ĥ. Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole, 'The Scope of Open Source Licensing' (Harvard NOM working paper no. Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).ģ. For an excellent history of the free software movement and of open-source development, see Glyn Moody, Rebel Code: Inside Linux and the Open Source Revolution (New York: Perseus Publishing, 2001).Ģ.

The wealth of networks by yochai benkler