Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?
- ISBN-10
- 6610475806
- ISBN-13
- 9786610475803
- Category
- Intellectual capital
- Pages
- 253
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Earthscan Publications
- Authors
- John Braithwaite, Peter Drahos
Description
Based on extensive interviews with key players, this text shows how the "knowledge economy" is making serfs of everyone bar a few multinational companies. The authors argue that in the globalized information society, the rich have found new ways to rob the poor, using intellectual property rules. Authors from ANU.
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