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Collective philanthropy: describing and modeling the ecology of giving. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Reflective of income and wealth distributions, philanthropic gifting appears to follow an approximate power-law size distribution as measured by the size of gifts received by individual institutions.
William L Gottesman +2 more
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Gift-Giving, Quasi-Credit and Reciprocity [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2002 The fluctuations in incomes inherent in rural communities can be attenuated by reciprocal assistance. A model of reciprocal assistance based upon rational action and voluntary participation is presented. Individuals provide assistance only if the costs of so doing are outweighed by the benefits from expected future reciprocation.
Jonathan P. Thomas, Tim Worrall
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The University and the Gift: A Problem Definition [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2014 The authors suggest introducing the notion of the gift into the theory and practice of the University life. They believe that the relationship of gift in transmission of knowledge is immanent to the management organization of the University. If knowledge
Nikolay Emelianov, Ivan Pavliutkin
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Evolution and Information in a Gift-Giving Game [PDF]
Journal of Economic Theory, 2001 The authors examine the stochastic stability of a process of learning and evolution in a gift-giving game. Overlapping generations of players are randomly matched to play the game. The players may consult information systems to learn about the past behavior of their opponents. If the value of the gift is ``smaller than twice'' (resp.
Philip Johnson +2 more
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Gift-giving, Love Styles, and Sacrifice: An Analysis Among Romantic Partners
RAC: Revista de Administração Contemporânea, 2019 Going beyond analyzing gift-giving from a single love perspective, this paper aimed to understand the gift-giving from the love types experienced in romantic relationships, investigating the frequency, the reasons for the act of giving gifts among ...
Marianny Silva +3 more
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Potlatch, absolute hospitality and metaphorization in constructing socioeconomic intercultural reality [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 The article reveals and substantiates the following thesis: the “economy of trust” exists exclusively in the context and sphere of specific social relations named potlatch. Potlatch is a traditional gift-giving feast that taken place among the natives of
Bolshunov Andrey Yakovlevich +3 more
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Building Trust—One Gift at a Time
Games, 2011 This paper reports an experiment evaluating the effect of gift giving on building trust. We have nested our explorations in the standard version of the investment game.
Radovan Vadovič +2 more
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Gift-Giving as a Conversion Device in Online Marketplaces
Social Media + Society, 2022 The social foundations of the platform economy stand at the forefront of academic research in economic sociology, communication, and organization studies.
Asaf Darr
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Cookies, gift-giving, and the Internet
First Monday, 1999 This paper arose from a question: why are there so many connections between cookies and the Internet? We describe some of these connections. Cookies appear in contexts that have to do with giving and sharing. We explore the larger social context of cookies as food, as a gift for children, and as a symbol of sharing, and also the relationship between ...
Bays, Hillary, Mowbray, Miranda
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Austere kindness or mindless austerity: the efects of gift-giving to beggars in east London
Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2014 The current austerity policies in the United Kingdom are creating a precarious situation for many people on the margins of society. Employing micro-level ethnographic analysis, this article addresses how government decisions affect people living on the ...
Johannes Lenhard
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