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Yochai Benkler

(1964) Economist United States

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Yochai Benkler is an economist from the United States, best known for Open Development.

Quick Facts About Yochai Benkler

Born: January 1, 1964
Nationality: United States
Profession: Economist
Notable works: Open Development
Known for: The Wealth of Networks

About Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler is an Israeli-American author and the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He is also a faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. In academia he is best known for coining the term commons-based peer production and his widely cited 2006 book The Wealth of Networks.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

EFF Award OII Lifetime Achievement Award

Quotes by Yochai Benkler

Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

Anonymous

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Imperfection is a core dimension of freedom.

Core

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Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when…

Bag

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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more…

Allowed

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Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only…

1960s

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Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians…

Accountable

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On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at…

Center

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I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have…

Chronic

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Money isn't always the best motivator. If you leave a $50 check after dinner with friends, you don't increase the probability of…

Checks

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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any…

Adaptive

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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi…

Awareness

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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in…

21st century

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Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it's not about something small and…

About

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Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital…

Around

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One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from…

Change

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