The Gift in the Economy and Society: Perspectives from Institutional Economics and Other Social Sciences

ISBN-13: 9780367510879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 216 str.

Kesting, Stefan

Opis

Recognising the gift as an example of social practice underpinned by social institutions, this book moves beyond the utilitarian approach of mainstream economics to explore perspectives on the gift from social and institutional economics.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part I – Theoretical approaches  2. Institutional Orders and the Gift: A Macrosociological Approach  3. Beneficence, reciprocity and institutions in Smith  4. The gift as total social fact: From Mauss to money  Part II - Applied, empirical or experimental case studies  5. Lab Scientists’ Innovativeness: A Case Study of Networks and Favour Exchange  6. Gift as conspicuous consumption: the case of the Odyssey  7. The fluid nature of gifts and grants: an institutional application to the Marshall Plan  8. An Institutional Analysis of the Dowry System in South Asia  9. In search of relevant financial regulation: some lessons from the gift-economics  10. Principles of exchange and reciprocity in the context of providing care  11. Afterword: The puzzle of the gift