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Welcome to
The Gift Economy
Tom TresserNovember 2012
“Our core values statement is now official.”
Assertion: Business schools played a contributing role in creating the geniuses who brought us the economic meltdown of 2008.
Authors ask ”whether business schools do a good job of alerting students to the imperfections and incompleteness of the models and frameworks they teach.”
Q: What is valuable?
Activity #1 Text the amount of the total student
debt in your family (you, your kids, your siblings)to this number:
312-544-0390
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Linus Torvalds
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• 8,000 contributors since 2005• Total 15 million lines of code written for free.• $3 billion contributed labor!
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28,000 projects
uploaded for sharing!
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• produce use-value through the free cooperation of producers who have access to distributed capital. Its product is not exchange value for a market, but use-value for a community of users. PRODUCE VALUABLE STUFF FOR GIFTING.
• are governed by the community of producers themselves, and not by market allocation or corporate hierarchy.COMMUNITY-ASSIGNED MERIT EARNED.
• make use-value freely accessible on a universal basis, through new common property regimes. This is its distribution or 'peer property mode': a 'third mode of ownership,' different from private property or public (state) property. VIRAL DISTRIBUTION VIA UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE NETWORKS.
Peer-To-Peer Processes are…
Activity #2 Using the sticky notes, write down
something (or some things) you would like to offer to the people in this room. This could be some stuff, a service or money. Please put your name and phone number or a way to be contacted.
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“A person first starts to live when he can live outside himself, when he can have as much regard for his fellow man as he does for himself. I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make this world a better place than the one he found. Life is a gift, and if we agree to accept it, we must contribute in return. When we fail to contribute; we fail to adequately answer why we are here.”
-Albert Einstein
