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The Economics of Symbolic Exchange
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One clearly evident dimension is research. Certain authors introduce quite new intellectual approaches into scientific debate. This requires a special frame of mind and a searching curiosity about social reality. Carl Gustav Jung identified a phenomenon which he called systematic blindness: when a science reaches a stage of maturity and equilibrium, it categorically refuses, from a sense of self-preservation, to note certain facts and phenomena which it finds inconvenient. In Alexander Dolgin’s book whole complexes of such “non-canonical” material are to be found. Here are just a few examples: file exchange networks, through which digital works of art are spread through the Internet; bargain sales of fashionable clothing; the paradox of equal pricing of cultural goods of varying quality; and a discussion of whether patronage or business has the more productive influence on creativity. Obviously, not all the issues Volgin raises are totally new, but brought together and examined within an elegant logical framework of informational economics, they pose a challenge to scientific thinking.
Alexander Dolgin - Personal Name
1st Edtion
978-3-540-79882-8
NONE
The Economics of Symbolic Exchange
Economics
English
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
2009
USA
1-517
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