Mike Linksvayer has posted an interview with author Lewis Hyde, who has written a new book Common as Air. From the interview:
I am obviously someone who cares about gift-exchange and sharing in the creation of knowledge and culture but I am also a bit of a contrarian and thus find that sometimes I want to underline the complications that necessarily arise around gift-exchange in our current situation.
Robert Darnton at the New York Times reviews the book.
