Sharing: Crime Against Capitalism
- Submitting institution
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University of Durham
- Unit of assessment
- 21 - Sociology
- Output identifier
- 109400
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Polity
- ISBN
- 9781509513239
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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A - Higher Education and Social Inequalities
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Taking seven years to complete, this 75000-word monograph synthesises research in six substantive fields into one overall account of sharing in information rich, non-rivalrous goods. Combining in-depth studies of the music industry, broadcasting, software, publishing, genetics and pharmaceuticals, enables this work to demonstrate three things that could not have been shown through multiple standalone articles. Firstly, sharing offers greater efficiency, efficacy and incentive in producing and distributing diverse information-rich goods than do intellectual property (copyright and patent) monopolies. Secondly, sharing challenges capitalism’s scarcity-based economic model (hence its criminalisation). Finally, peer-reciprocation and non-peer-redistribution based sharing complement rather than contradict one another.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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