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

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at the

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. He was also the Director of the Center for Long Term Cybersecurity (CLTC), a Berkeley think tank, for nine years. After studying history and international development at Washington University in St. Louis, he received an M.D. and a Ph.D in political science from

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. He is the author of several books about international politics and

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. 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

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and

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. 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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