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The Economics of Symbolic Exchange

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  1. Alexander Dolgin

    1. Fund for Scientific Studies, Moscow, Russia

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-31
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  2. A Promising Model for the Music Business

    • Alexander Dolgin
    Pages 11-67

  3. Adverse Selection in the Culture Industries

    • Alexander Dolgin
    Pages 69-144

  4. The Economic Logic of Creative Reputations

    • Alexander Dolgin
    Pages 145-250

  5. The Concept of Cultural Welfare

    • Alexander Dolgin
    Pages 251-322

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 323-502
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About this book

Alexander Dolgin’s Economics of Symbolic Exchange is in reality not one but three books, and although these semantic layers are interlinked, the reader will need to choose between the different vectors and modalities. One clearly evident dimension is research. Certain authors introduce quite new intellectual approaches into scienti?c debate. This requires a special frame of mind and a searching curiosity about social reality. Carl Gustav Jung identi?ed a p- nomenon 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 ?nds inconvenient. In Alexander D- gin’s book whole complexes of such “non-canonical” material are to be found. Here are just a few examples: ?le 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 - tronage or business has the more productive in?uence on creativity. Obviously, not all the issues Volginraises are totally new, but brought togetherand examinedwithin an elegant logical framework of informational economics, they pose a challenge to scienti?c thinking. Such challenges are by no means immediately or, in some cases, ever acclaimed bythescienti?cestablishment. J. K. Galbraith,forexample,agreatAmericaneco- mist, whose works are read throughout the world, who introduced a whole range of crucially important concepts, the director of John F.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Fund for Scientific Studies, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander Dolgin

About the author

Alexander Dolgin is Professor and head of the Chair of Economics of Culture at the State University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow. He has published two books and over one hundred research papers and popular articles. The main focus of his research interests is the institutional economics of culture, which covers diverse topics such as the deteriorating cultural selection processes, the economics of creative reputations, the theory of the welfare of culture, the economics of the copyright and many others.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Economics of Symbolic Exchange

  • Authors: Alexander Dolgin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79883-5

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-79882-8Published: 06 October 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09865-9Published: 19 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-79883-5Published: 17 September 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 503

  • Topics: Microeconomics

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