The Hacker Ethic
How the Spirit of the New Economy is Challenging the Way We Work and Live
Yale University Press
Published on 31. January 2001
Book
Hardback
978-0-300-08830-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this work, three scholars on the information age claim that the hacker movement - in which individuals share problems and create solutions - offers a challenging alternative to the "Protestant ethic" that has driven the capitalist economy for the last century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-300-08830-4 (9780300088304)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Author
Researcher in Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, USA