The gift paradigm : a short introduction to the anti-utilitarian movement in the social sciences /

In his classic essay The Gift, Marcel Mauss argued that gifts can never be truly free. Rather, they bring about an expectation of reciprocal exchange. For over one hundred years, his ideas on economy, social relations and exchange have inspired new modes of thought, none more so than what crystalliz...

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Main Author:	Caillé, Alain, 1944- (Author)
Other Authors:	Connell, Gordon (Translator), Gauthier, François (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Translated from the French.
Published:	Chicago : Prickly Paradigm Press, [2020]
Series:	Paradigm (Chicago, Ill.) ; 57.
Subjects:	Mouvement anti-utilitariste dans les sciences sociales (Paris, France) Social sciences > Philosophy. Gifts > Philosophy. Social sciences > Methodology. Utilitarianism.