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Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,030
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Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy (Paperback): Dave Elder-Vass

Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy (Paperback)

Dave Elder-Vass

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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 topical, Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy focusses on an area of rapid social change while developing a theoretically and politically radical framework that will be of continuing long-term relevance. It will appeal to students, activists and academics in the social sciences.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2016
Authors: Dave Elder-Vass
Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 978-1-316-50938-8
Categories: Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy
Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
LSN: 1-316-50938-9
Barcode: 9781316509388

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