Lively and informed, "Scroogenomics" illustrates how consumer spending generates vast amounts of economic waste. Economist Waldfogel provides solid explanations to show why it's time to stop the madness and think twice before buying gifts for the holidays.
Joel Waldfogel Books
November 25, 1962
Joel Waldfogel is an economist and author whose work often delves into the economics of creativity and innovation. His writing explores how people create and share new ideas and how these processes impact society. Waldfogel focuses on understanding what drives creativity and how it can be fostered to yield positive outcomes. His analyses offer insights into the complexities of human ingenuity and its influence on economic and societal advancement.
Digital Renaissance
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
How digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries—and why that’s a good thing The digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries—music, publishing, television, and the movies. Cheap, easy self-producing is eroding the position of the gatekeepers and guardians of culture. Does this revolution herald the collapse of culture, as some commentators claim? Far from it. In Digital Renaissance, Joel Waldfogel argues that digital technology is enabling a new golden age of popular culture—a digital renaissance. Analyzing decades of production and sales data, as well as bestseller and best-of lists, Waldfogel finds that the new digital model is just as powerful at generating high-quality, successful work as the old industry model, and in many cases more so.