We find ourselves in a world that is no more (and no less) than a good cocktail of information and matter. However, the social sciences have not been characterised by their profusion in attending to the implications of this essential division of reality. Sociology is the science that, since Bourdieu's work, has worked most on the concept of symbolic capital. In economics, however, the differentiations between symbolic (or informational) goods and material goods have not proved to be very useful except for some marginal sub-disciplines such as the Economics of Culture, the Economics of Communication or the more recent Netnomics.