Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Information Society -- 2 Four Puzzles -- 3 The Public and Private Realms -- 4 Information Economics -- 5 Intellectual Property and the Liberal State -- 6 Copyright and the Invention of Authorship -- 7 Blackmail -- 8 Insider Trading and the Romantic Entrepreneur -- 9 Spleens -- 10 Stereotyping Information and Searching for an Author -- 11 The International Political Economy of Authorship -- 12 Private Censors, Transgenic Slavery, and Electronic Indenture -- 13 Proposals and Objections -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. An Afterword on Method -- Appendix B. The Bellagio Declaration -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.