Gifts as Economic Signals and Social Symbols [PDF]
, 1988 Gift-giving has often puzzled economists, especially because efficient gifts-like cash or giving exactly what a person asks for-seem crass or inappropriate.
Camerer, Colin
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Consuming children and making mothers: birthday parties, gifts and the pursuit of sameness
Horizontes Antropológicos, 2007 Children's birthday parties, and related consumption, form an integral part of the social process of mothering in contemporary consumer culture. From the choosing of the 'right' present to the arrangement of the 'appropriate' party theme, an enormous ...
Alison J. Clarke
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Factors affecting the selection of dealer in the purchase of motorcycles in Medellin: a case study
Revista CEA, 2015 This study was conducted to establish what are the criteria that the consumer takes into account when selecting the site (licensee) purchase of motorcycles distributed.
Juan Carlos Pérez Vélez +3 more
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Taxation of non-profit organizations and tax assignments in the Visegrad countries
Trendy v podnikání, 2021 The tax regime and the subsequent funding of non-governmental non-profit organizations through the institution of tax assignations in the Visegrad countries is the main topic of this paper.
Milena Otavová +3 more
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El género de la deuda. Circulación de la deuda social entre mujeres de Ciudad Juárez, México
Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2015 The intention of this paper is to analyze the social debt contracted by women in southeastern Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), within the theoretical framework of feminist economic anthropology based on ethnographic data collected there during 2012 at a Nutrition
Maribel Núñez Rodríguez
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Silk Investment in Gifts By Males of the Nuptial Feeding Spider Pisaura Mirabilis (Araneae: Pisauridae). [PDF]
, 1996 Adult males of the hunting spider Pisaura mirabilis wrap up prey with silk and pass these nuptial gifts to females prior to copulation. The females digest the nuptial gifts, including the silk, during mating.
Lang, Andreas
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How everyday ethics becomes a moral economy, and vice versa
Economics: Journal Articles, 2019 Unrealistic assumptions underlying neo-classical economic theory have been challenged by both behavioral economics and studies of moral economy. But both challengers share certain features with neo-classical theory. Complementing them, recent work in the
Keane Webb
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Tempering the king’s anger. Beatrice of Aragon’s role in foreign relations
En la España MedievalThe wedding of Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary and Bohemia, and Beatrice of Aragon in 1476 marked a high point of diplomatic relations between Central Europe and Italy, which strengthened an already strong interest of King Matthias in Italian matters.
Patrik Pastrnak
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The Exchange of Gifts between Christians and Muslims on Lusignan and Venetian Cyprus 1192–1517
Religions, 2023 In this paper which comes under the theme of macro-historical perspectives and Mediterranean history I shall discuss the exchange of gifts in three sections: first between the Lusignan kings of Cyprus and the sultans of Mamluk Egypt and Syria, between ...
Nicholas Coureas
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Should Dogs and Cats be Given as Gifts? [PDF]
, 2013 Policies that state pets should not be adopted as gifts are prevalent at animal welfare organizations, despite the fact that this belief is unfounded. Denying adopters who intend to give the animals as gifts may unnecessarily impede the overarching goal ...
Emily D. Dolan +4 more
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