Bookshelf: Business Books for the Executive's Nightstand
By
Kirk Shinkle
Posted January 10, 2008
The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
—By Matt Mason (Free Press)
Think pirate radio, not eye patches and cutlasses. Mason, a writer for über-hip magazine-cum-branding effort VICE, offers up an entertaining if not entirely convincing thesis: Cultural marginalia—punk rock, graffiti artists, DJs—are creating more efficient networks, better ideas, and even a more benevolent style of capitalism.
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