UID:
almafu_9960117532702883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 257 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-78945-4
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1-316-79281-1
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1-316-53642-4
Content:
"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 ground-breaking 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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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jul 2016).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Diverse economies -- 1 Introduction -- An economy of diverse appropriative practices -- Historical context and political strategy -- Towards a new political economy -- 2 Diverse economies -- Introduction -- The discourse of the market economy -- What is 'the economy'? -- The reality of the diverse economy -- Real utopias -- Conclusion -- Part II Political economies -- 3 Beyond Marxist political economy -- Introduction -- Political economy as critique -- Modes of production -- The labour theory of value -- Conclusion -- 4 Mainstream economics and its rivals -- Introduction -- Mainstream economics: the neoclassical core -- Beyond neoclassical economics -- Mauss's anthropology of the gift -- Economic sociology -- Conclusion -- 5 Complexes of appropriative practices -- Introduction -- Practices: the unit of economic form -- Appropriative practices -- Complexes of appropriative practices -- Conclusion -- Part III Digital economies -- 6 Digital monopoly capitalism: Apple -- Introduction -- Innovation and entrepreneurship -- Preferential attachment -- Constructing monopoly using intellectual property rights -- Constructing monopoly using technology -- Exploiting workers and suppliers, and avoiding taxes -- Conclusion -- 7 Co-operative peer production: Wikipedia -- Introduction -- Encyclopaedic knowledge as a digital gift -- Wikipedia vs. Encyclopaedia Britannica -- Funding the gift model -- Why do people edit Wikipedia? -- Regulating quality: norms -- Regulating quality using technology -- Governance, legitimacy and participation -- Conclusion -- 8 Does Google give gifts? -- Introduction -- Web search and advertising -- Gift capitalism? -- Resistance and attachment -- Personalisation, privacy and power -- Conclusion.
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9 User content capitalism -- Introduction -- Neither commodities nor wage labour -- Securing attachment from contributing users -- UGC businesses and conventional capitalism -- The troublesome concept of prosumption -- Are amateur content contributors exploited? -- Conclusion -- 10 Conclusion -- Introduction -- How to theorise the economy -- Embrace diversity -- Define the economy by provisioning -- Appropriative practices -- A moral political economy -- A scientific political economy -- The diverse digital economy -- The digital gift economy -- The digital commodity economy -- The hybrid digital economy -- Interacting economic forms -- How to change the economy -- A role for capitalism -- A role for the gift economy -- Towards an open future -- Bibliography -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-14614-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-316-50938-9
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316536421
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