Power and Productivity from the Black Death to the Rise of Neoliberalism: Extending the Polanyian Framework

Join this online public lecture by Yochai Benkler (Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard Law School, and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University).

Since the 1990s, Professor Benkler’s research and publications have focused on commons-based approaches to managing resources in networked environments. Yochai Benkler’s “commons-based peer production” describes the role of information commons and decentralized collaboration in innovation, information production, and freedom in the networked economy and society. He will share recent work influenced by the work of Karl Polanyi and extending Polanyi’s framework to cover the arc of the history of what Polanyi called “market society.”