Steven Weber is a professor at the School of Information and the Department of

Political Science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and ...

at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. After studying history and international development at

Washington University Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University is ...

, he received an M.D. and a Ph.D in political science from Stanford University. He is the author of several books about international politics and

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analy ...

. He is also the editor of ''Globalization and the European Political Economy'' (Columbia University Press, 2000). Perhaps his most well-known book is ''The Success of Open Source'', on the economy and motivations behind

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

and

free software Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, ...

. There he proposes the concept of anti-rival goods.

References

Books

* ''Cooperation and Discord in U.S.—Soviet Arms Control'' (Princeton Press, 1991) * ''The Success of Open Source'' (Harvard University Press, 2004)

External links

Video Interview (Webcast)

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