1st Edition
The Gift in the Economy and Society Perspectives from Institutional Economics and Other Social Sciences
1. Introduction
Stefan Kesting, Ioana Negru and Paolo Silvestri
Part I – Theoretical approaches
2. Institutional Orders and the Gift: A Macrosociological Approach
Frank Adloff
3. Beneficence, reciprocity and institutions in Smith
Benoît Walraevens
4. The gift as total social fact: From Mauss to money
Diego Viana
Part II - Applied, empirical or experimental case studies
5. Lab Scientists’ Innovativeness: A Case Study of Networks and Favour Exchange
Wilfred Dolfsma and Rene van der Eijk
6. Gift as conspicuous consumption: the case of the Odyssey
Paschalis A. Arvanitidis and Polyxeni Strolonga
7. The fluid nature of gifts and grants: an institutional application to the Marshall Plan
Stefan Kesting
8. An Institutional Analysis of the Dowry System in South Asia
Kalpana Khanal and Ruchira Sen
9. In search of relevant financial regulation: some lessons from the gift-economics
Faruk Ülgen and Marina Sakovich
10. Principles of exchange and reciprocity in the context of providing care
Anna Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz
11. Afterword: The puzzle of the gift
Wilfred Dolfsma
Biography
Stefan Kesting is a Senior Teaching Fellow at Leeds University Business School, UK.
Ioana Negru is a Reader in Economics at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania.
Paolo Silvestri is Contract Professor at University of Turin, Italy; Bocconi University, Italy; and Lumière University, Lyon 2, France.
