Bio

Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Since the 1990s he has played a role in characterizing the role of information commons, cooperative human systems, and decentralized collaboration to innovation, information production, and freedom in the networked economy and society. His books include Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics (Oxford University Press 2018), The Penguin and the Leviathan: How cooperation triumphs over self-interest (Crown Business 2011), and The Wealth of Networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom (Yale University Press 2006). His work can be freely accessed at benkler.org.

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