Wealth of Networks (and the Poverty of Non-Profits)
Book Review, Internet, Nonprofit 2.0, Strategy | (0)
A billion people in advanced economies may have between two billion and six billion spare hours among them, every day.
In order to harness these billions of hours, it would take the whole workforce of almost 340,000 workers employed by the entire motion picture and recording industries in the United States put together, assuming each worker worked forty-hour weeks without taking a single vacation, for between three and eight and a half years!
Perhaps THE seminal book on the Internet in the last ten years, Yochai Benkler's Wealth of Networks is an intellectual smorgasborg of a book encompassing philosophy, economics, law ...