Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy Elder-Vass Dave Loughborough University
Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy Elder-Vass Dave Loughborough University Our economy is neither overwhelmingly capitalist, as Marxist political economists argue, nor overwhelmingly a market…
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Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy Elder-Vass Dave Loughborough University
Our economy is neither overwhelmingly capitalist, as Marxist political economists argue, nor overwhelmingly a market economy, as mainstream economists assume. 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. 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.
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 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.