https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/yochai-benklers-the-wealth-of-networks/2006/04/22 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/yochai-benklers-the-wealth-of-networks/2006/04/22/comment-page-1#comment-799 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:21:00 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=169#comment-799 […] We mentioned the importance of Yochai Benkler’s new book on The Wealth of Networks before. And we’ve selected it as one of the top 10 P2P Books that are a must-read. The Crooked Timber blog now adds an interesting resource: a discussion seminar with the participation of other eminent authors on related topics. […]

]]> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/yochai-benklers-the-wealth-of-networks/2006/04/22/comment-page-1#comment-389 Fri, 12 May 2006 04:30:41 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=169#comment-389 peer production and its importance for the political economy (as separate from any enthousiasm for the Commons or Open paradigms). The first is Yochai Benkler, who operates from within an American ‘left-liberal†tradition and sees peer production as operating within the bounds of the market economy; the second would be my own work; and the third I only recently discovered during the Immaterial Labour Conference in Cambridge. (An add-on approach would be Oekonux.orgâ€s focus on free software, an approach which I consider as too narrow.)Both Nick and I concur, and I think that makes the essential difference with Benkler, that peer production has both immanent aspects, it indeed operates within the market economy; but it has also transcendent aspects. It points to the new system where the core would be the networked commons. My own approach uses another conceptual scheme, and differs in some details (Iâ€m not yet sure I agree with the non-P2P statist-planner commons as part of the same trend), but this is definitely a new foundational essay announcing the P2P era. [...]]]> […] There are in my opinion, 3 people who really ‘get’ peer production and its importance for the political economy (as separate from any enthousiasm for the Commons or Open paradigms). The first is Yochai Benkler, who operates from within an American ‘left-liberal’ tradition and sees peer production as operating within the bounds of the market economy; the second would be my own work; and the third I only recently discovered during the Immaterial Labour Conference in Cambridge. (An add-on approach would be Oekonux.org’s focus on free software, an approach which I consider as too narrow.)Both Nick and I concur, and I think that makes the essential difference with Benkler, that peer production has both immanent aspects, it indeed operates within the market economy; but it has also transcendent aspects. It points to the new system where the core would be the networked commons. My own approach uses another conceptual scheme, and differs in some details (I’m not yet sure I agree with the non-P2P statist-planner commons as part of the same trend), but this is definitely a new foundational essay announcing the P2P era. […]

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