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“To fulfill a private obligation”: Marianne Moore, Her Patrons, and the Social Economy of the Gift
NANO, 2017 This paper focuses on material and financial gifts received by the American modernist poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) under the auspices of patronage.
Síofra McSherry
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, 2013 What would happen if, the systems we deal with everyday, and the situations we find ourselves in, could trigger us to give something to someone else? This work started by exploring the theme of money systems and social structures and the ambition to find alternatives for our current economic system, which has failed in several ways.
Hoof, Pomme van
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The Coming of the Corporate Gift [PDF]
, 2014 Corporate gifts - from philanthropic donations to individual reward schemes –attract considerable attention from scholars for the kinds of moral, economic and political logics that motivate them.
Jamie Cross, Cross, Jamie
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Binding Fan Fiction and Reexamining Book Production Models
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2022 Binding fan fiction into books is an increasingly popular phenomenon that follows in the footsteps of twentieth-century fanzines and challenges the current perception of fic as an exclusively digital form.
Shira Belén Buchsbaum
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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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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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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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