David Bollier

Silent Theft

The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text exposes the audacious attempts of companies to appropriate medical breakthroughs, public airwaves, outer space, state research, and even the DNA of plants and animals. It is an attempt to develop a new ethos of commonwealth in the face of a market ethic that knows no bounds.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780415932646
• ISBN-10: 0415932645
• Artikelnr.: 22409368

Autorenporträt

David Bollier has worked for twenty years as a journalist, activist, and public policy analyst. He is Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Director of the Information Commons Project at the New America Foundation. He is also co-founder of Public Knowledge, a public-interest advocacy organization dedicated to defending the commons of the Internet, science and culture.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Reclaiming the Narrative of the Commons 2. The Stubborn Vitality of the
Gift Economy 3. When Markets Enclose the Commons 4. Enclosing the Commons
of Nature 5. The Colonization of Frontier Commons 6. The Abuse of the
Public's Natural Resources 7. Can the Internet Commons Be Saved? 8. The
Privatization of Public Knowledge 9. Enclosing the Academic Commons 10. The
Commercialization of Culture and Public Spaces 11. The Giveaway of Federal
Drug Research and Information Resources 12. The Commons: Another Kind of
Property 13. Strategies for Protecting the Commons