Grant McCracken
Grant McCracken is a cultural anthropologist. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. He was the founder of the Institute of Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, and a cofounder of the Artisanal Economies Project. Grant has taught at Harvard, the University of Cambridge, and MIT. He advises a wide variety of companies and individuals, including Google, Netflix, Nike, the Ford Foundation, Kanye West, the Boston Book Festival, and the White House (no, the other one). He lives in Connecticut with his wife and three cats.
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The New Honor Code
- By: Grant McCracken
- Narrator: Vikas Adam
- Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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Cultural anthropologist and thought leader Grant McCracken proposes a radical solution for our time of unprecedented scandal: a return to honor.What used to be shocking has somehow become the new normal. Sexual predators stalk interns at work.... Read more
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