Sharing

Crime Against Capitalism
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5095-1323-9
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Today's economic system, premised on the sale of physical goods, does not fit the information age in which we live. The capitalist order requires the maintenance of an artificial scarcity in goods that have the potential for near infinite and almost free replication. The sharing of informational goods through distributed global networks – digital libraries, file–sharing, live–streaming, free software, free–access publishing, the free–sharing of scientific knowledge, and open-source pharmaceuticals – not only challenges the dominance of a scarcity–based economic system, but also enables a more efficient, innovative, just and free culture.

In a series of seven explorations of contemporary sharing, Matthew David shows that in each case sharing surpasses markets, private ownership and intellectual property rights in fostering motivation, creativity, innovation, production, distribution and reward. In transforming the idea of an information economy into an information society, sharing connects struggles against inequality and poverty in developed and developing countries. Challenging taken-for-granted justifications of the status quo, Sharing debunks the 'tragedy of the commons' and makes the case for digital network sharing as a viable mode of economic counterpower, prefiguring a post–capitalist society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

David, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medienphilosophie, Medienethik, Medienrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. Libraries and the Digital World
3. Peer-to-Peer Music Sharing Online
4. Live-streaming and Television Rights Management
5. Open Source Software and Proprietary Software
6. Publishing: Academic, Journalistic and Trade
7. Genes, Genetically Modified Organisms, Patents and Agribusiness
8. Pharmaceutical Patents and Generic Drugs
9. Conclusions Ð Sharing: Crime Against Capitalism
References

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew David is Associate Professor of Sociology at Durham University.