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Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy
Dave Elder-Vass
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Description for Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy
paperback. This book develops a new political economy, enabling us to see, understand and advocate a diverse economy beyond capitalism and socialism. Num Pages: 260 pages, 1 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HPJ; JHB; KCA; KCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 398.
Our economy is neither overwhelmingly capitalist, as Marxist political economists argue, nor overwhelmingly a market economy, as mainstream economists assume. Both approaches ignore vast swathes of the economy, including the gift, collaborative and hybrid forms that coexist with more conventional capitalism in the new digital economy. Drawing on economic sociology, anthropology of the gift and heterodox economics, this book proposes a groundbreaking framework for analysing diverse economic systems: a political economy of practices. The framework is used to analyse Apple, Wikipedia, Google, YouTube and Facebook, showing how different complexes of appropriative practices bring about radically different economic outcomes. Innovative and ... Read more
Our economy is neither overwhelmingly capitalist, as Marxist political economists argue, nor overwhelmingly a market economy, as mainstream economists assume. Both approaches ignore vast swathes of the economy, including the gift, collaborative and hybrid forms that coexist with more conventional capitalism in the new digital economy. Drawing on economic sociology, anthropology of the gift and heterodox economics, this book proposes a groundbreaking framework for analysing diverse economic systems: a political economy of practices. The framework is used to analyse Apple, Wikipedia, Google, YouTube and Facebook, showing how different complexes of appropriative practices bring about radically different economic outcomes. Innovative and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781316509388
SKU
V9781316509388
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About Dave Elder-Vass
Dave Elder-Vass teaches sociology and digital economies at Loughborough University. Before returning to academic life he was a senior IT technology manager in the private sector. This book brings together his expertise in digital technology and its use in business with his academic work on economic sociology and particularly the relation of gifts to the conventional economy. His previous publications ... Read more
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