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What is a gift economy?

Alex Gendler · TED

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About

What if, this holiday season, instead of saying "thank you" to your aunt for her gift of a knitted sweater, the polite response expected from you was to show up at her house in a week with a better gift? Or to vote for her in the town election? Or let her adopt your firstborn child? Alex Gendler explains how all of these things might not sound so strange if you were involved in a gift economy. [Directed by Avi Ofer, narrated by Pen-Pen Chen].

The talk

  1. What is a gift economy? 4 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED-Ed
Speaker
Alex Gendler
Year
2014
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Economics, Business and management, Society and politics, Teaching and learning
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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