Youth Culture Capitalism

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010

Matt Mason, author of The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Reinventing Capitalism, talks about how youth and subcultural movements, like punk, hip-hop, graffiti and gaming, have combined with technology to drive innovation and become global industries. Then, Amy Borkowsky, comedian who is being cell-ibate for sixty days: she has given up her cell phone!

The Pirate's Dilemma is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

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