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Higher Education as a Gift and as a Commons
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2018 This paper takes as a starting point Lewis Hyde’s (2007, xvi) assertion that art is a gift and not a commodity: “Works of art exist simultaneously in two ‘economies’, a market economy and a gift economy. Only one of these is essential, however: a work of
Andreas Wittel
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Transformative Works and Cultures, 2022 Review of Elyse Graham, The republic of games: Textual culture between old books and new media. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2018, paperback, $24.95 (176p), ISBN 9780773553392.
Suzanne R. Black
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“Talk of contracts”: Gift-giving vs. Reciprocity in James Joyce’s “A Mother”
American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2014 This essay measures the extent to which gift-giving fails in an economy of reciprocity. Reading James Joyce’s story “A Mother” in terms of Derrida’s notion of the gift as “absolute loss,” I consider the implications of an economy of loss for Joyce’s ...
Raghinaru Camelia
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Dynamic efficiency in the gifts economy [PDF]
Journal of Monetary Economics, 1993 Abstract In the standard analysis of overlapping generations economies with gifts from children to parents, each generation takes the actions of other generations as given. The resulting equilibrium is dynamically inefficient. In reality, however, parents realize that children will respond to higher parental saving by reducing gifts.
O'Connell, Stephen A., Zeldes, S. P.
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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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Community orchards and Hyde’s theory of the gift
Canadian Food Studies, 2019 Food scholars and advocates just have long asserted that commodification is one of the fundamental injustices of our dominant, industrial food system, as it stands in direct opposition to the notion of food as a human right.
Jennie K Barron
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Book Interview: The Economy On Your Doorstep
The Thinker, 2021 Gift Sonkqayi and Bhaso Ndzendze talk to Ayabonga Cawe about his book The Economy On Your Doorstep: The political economy that explains why the South African economy ‘misfires’ and what we can do about it (2021, Tracey McDonald Publishers)
Ayabonga Cawe
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The Performative Gift: A Feminist Materialist Conceptual Model
communication +1, 2013 Gifting (or gift-giving) is a particularly interesting form of communication that envelops both material and social dimensions. Objects are transformed into gifts through particular socio-material practices.
Jörgen Skågeby
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Maternal gift economy framework for addressing obstetric violence.
(Con)textos, 2022 The present article analyzes the economic aspects of maternity care, proposing the maternal gift economy theory as a possible framework for addressing the economic and structural causes of obstetric violence.
Elena Skoko
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The gift as philosophical critique of the social grant system in South Africa
Acta Academica, 2020 The purpose of this article is to undertake a philosophical reflection on the South African social grant system from the perspective of the gift as presented by Marcel Mauss, Alasdair John Milbank, Jean-Luc Marion and Jacques Derrida.
Erik Heppell, Mark Rathbone
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