Reputation Economics

Joshua Klein is an internationally known technology expert who studies systems, from computer networks and institutions to consumer hardware. His recent projects have included an acclaimed new television series on the history of innovation on the National Geographic Channel, called The Link, one of the most watched TED videos of all time (about vending machine to train crows to exchange found coins for peanuts) and the development of a cell phone application to create a virtuous cycle of education and employment in South Africa. His work has appearedinThe New York Times,Wired,O Magazine, and The Harvard Business Review.Hehas made appearances on MSNBC, NPR, and has spoken at conferences from TED to Davos, and presented in front of organizations ranging from the State Department to the Young Presidents Organization Global Leadership Congress, to Microsoft to Amazon. He lives in New York City.

'It is Klein's view that we have to stop thinking of money as the only way to exchange value...Progressive organisations know how important reputation is. It's the new mechanism of exchange... I welcome the possibility Klein puts before us of a new era of exchange in which reputation, rather than money, is the strongest currency of all' - Management Today

• CHAPTER 1: What is your mother worth? CHAPTER 2: A Short History of Money CHAPTER 3: The Fractalization of Currency CHAPTER 4: Rise of the Individual CHAPTER 5: The Panopticon and the Runaway Culture Ecology CHAPTER 6: Flies and Ointments CHAPTER 7: The Abundance Economy CHAPTER 8: Code is Culture CHAPTER 9: Emerging Models... and Markets CHAPTER 10: Triumph of the Commons - Maybe