The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest — Yochai Benkler, Berkman Center Faculty Co-Director :: October 18, 2011; 6:00 pm :: Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA. :: Free and Open to the Public; RSVP required. (Listen to David Weinberger’s interview with him here).

Harvard Professor Yochai Benkler (The Wealth of Networks) is one of the world’s top thinkers on cooperative structures. In his new book, The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest, he uses evidence from neuroscience, economics, sociology, biology, and real-world examples to break down the myth of self-interest and replace it with a model of cooperation in our businesses, our government, and our lives.

Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Since the 1990s he has played a part in characterizing the role of information commons and decentralized collaboration to innovation, information production, and freedom in the networked economy and society. His work can be freely accessed on his website.

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