The ethical economy: towards a post-capitalist theory of value.(Report): An article from: Capital & Class

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From the author: Social production has risen on the agenda of the social sciences. Yet most observers have been reluctant to confront the question of the value of these practices. Instead they have mostly been characterised as free; 'common' or beyond value. This article argues that far from bring free, social production abides in a particular value logic, an 'ethical economy' where value is related not to the input of labour time, but to the ability to give productive organisation to a diffuse connectivity or, which is the same thing, to transform weak ties into affectively significant strong ones. The article concludes that progressive politics should work with this new emerging value logic.

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Title: The ethical economy: towards a post-capitalist theory of value.(Report)
Author: Adam Arvidsson
Publication:Capital & Class (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2009
Publisher: Conference of Socialist Economists
Issue: 97 Page: 13(17)

Article Type: Report

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