Dave Elder-Vass

Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book develops a new political economy, enabling us to see, understand and advocate a diverse economy beyond capitalism and socialism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781107146143
• ISBN-10: 1107146143
• Artikelnr.: 45155540

Autorenporträt

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 include The Causal Power of Social Structures (Cambridge, 2010) and The Reality of Social Construction (Cambridge, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Diverse Economies: 1. Introduction
2. Diverse economies
Part II. Political Economies: 3. Beyond Marxist political economy
4. Mainstream economics and its rivals
5. Complexes of appropriative practices
Part III. Digital Economies: 6. Digital monopoly capitalism: Apple
7. Co-operative peer production: Wikipedia
8. Does Google give gifts?
9. User content capitalism
10. Conclusion.