Social Capital and the Gift Economy
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Yi-Tan Tech Community # Call 201 - Thinking About Capitals -
Podcast discussion via http://www.archive.org/download/Yi-tanTechCommunityCall201-ThinkingAboutCapitals/Yi-tanTechCommunityCall201-ThinkingAboutCapitals_vbr.m3u
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Social capital. Financial capital. Cultural capital. Intellectual capital. So many capitals.
What are they, really, and how do they interact?
Three weeks ago, anthropologist Grant McCracken, led us into fascinating change territory. With Grant, let’s discuss:
- What is the gift economy? How does it relate to the commercial economy?
- How do we create capital? What does it store or hold?
- Are we facing shifts in these forms of capital?