A Working Internet Gift Economy

Downloads Title Author(s)         Date         AE404: Constructing an Internet Gift Economy  Robin Upton  2005-11-25

In preparation for this, we launched a Gift Economy wiki in August 2006 to help people rediscover the concept, and to help put people in touch who are working on establish an Internet Gift Economy.

Although using high technology, the system is in many senses a return to our primitive roots; for almost all of man's history, we have relied on a gift economy to mediate our transactions. The influence of abstracted, anonymous power that we refer to as 'money' has only been in existance for a few thousand years, whilst centralised money systems have existed for an even shorter time. The selfishness of capitalism is not innate in people, as opposed to their natural desire to engage in lasting relationships. Much of the selfishness that surrounds us stems from the zero-sum systems we use to organise people, which tend to focus on numbers and profit maximization not on friendship or on human wellbeing. We believe that it is high time people were offered a more constructive way of doing business and would welcome any offers of assistance to help us provide one.

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	2004-11-17	Economics	On the Viability of Gift Exchange in a Market Environment	Theo van de Klundert & Jeroen van de Ven	1999 Nov
	2004-12-15	misc	The Gift Relationship	Unknown	2004-05-07	The Economist
	2004-12-15	Game Theory	Dictator game giving - Rules of fairness versus acts of kindness	Gary Bolton, Elena Katok & Rami Zwick	1998 May	International Journal of Game Theory 27, pp.269-299
	2004-12-15	Psychology	Altruism, Equity & Reciprocity in A Gift Exchange Experiment	Gary Charness & Ernan Haruvy	1999 Mar
	2004-12-27	Society	Gift Economy	Arjo Klamer	2002-12-01
	2004-12-27	misc	Gift Economy data	various	2004-09-05	InfoAnarchy Wiki
	2004-12-27	Economics	The Economics Of The Gift	Jeroen van de Ven	2000 Sep
	2004-12-27	Society	The Time(s) Of The Gift	John O'Neill	2001-10-09
	2004-11-17	Economics	AE2: A Mathematical Basis for a Networked Economy of Giving	Robin Upton	2004-12-06	Altruists International Altruistic Economics AE2
	2005-03-30	Society	To Give and to Give Not - The Behavioral Ecology of Human Food Transfers	Michael Gurven	2004	Behavioural and Brain Sciences (Issue 27), pp.543-583
	2005-05-29	Medical	Caregiver can be a partner's best medicine	Julia Keller	2004 Feb	Science & Theology News
	2005-06-23	Economics	Giving With Impure Altruism - Applications To Charity and Ricardian Equivalence	James Andreoni	1989 Dec	The Journal Of Political Economy (Issue 97), pp.1447-58
	2005-07-06	misc	The Gift Economy	Gifford Pinchot	1995	The Context Institute In Context (Issue 41)
	2005-07-06	Economics	AE104: Altruistic Economics & The Internet Gift Economy	Robin Upton	2005-07-06	Altruists International Altruistic Economics AE104
	2005-08-16	Economics	AE104KR Altruistic Economics & The Internet Gift Economy	Edward Lee	2005-11-11	Altruists International
	2005-11-25	Computer Science	AE404: Constructing an Internet Gift Economy	Robin Upton	2005-11-25	Altruists International Altruistic Economics AE404
	2007-02-12	Society	An Evolutionary Interpretation of Gift-giving Behavior in Modern Norwegian Society	Iver Mysterud, Thomas Drevon & Tore Slagsvold	2006-10-25	Evolutionary Psychology 4 (Issue 2006), pp.406-425