Let's help Liz

Before class, Liz, who is ill, asked me whether we could blog some class notes afterward, so that she could see what we talked about. If we each post our recollections of one topic we covered, she should be well served. I'll go first: Some readers of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom view the evident Disney fixation as an insurmountable handicap, since the cult of Disney is hardly universal. But the history of the Disney organization may be a good example of proto-Whuffie in action, since Walt commanded a loyalty and devotion from employees and customers alike that seemed beyond the sphere of mere talent, mere innovation, mere business acumen. Indeed, Walt generated so much Whuffie in life that his corporate heirs are still spending it and reaping Whuffie interest on it today. (Or am I confusing the issue? Is Whuffie inheritable, in our pre-post-death economy?) Who's next? Step right up.