gift economies
gift economies is the plural of gift economy.
Meaning of gift economy
Noun
gift economy (plural gift economies)
- A traditional economy where valuable goods are not traded or sold, but rather given away, sometimes with the expectation that they (or goods of equivalent or higher value) will later be given back.
- Community activists will increasingly use hypermedia to replace corporate capitalism and big government with a hi-tech ‘gift economy’ in which information is freely exchanged between participants.1995 September, Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, “The Californian Ideology”, in Mute, volume 1, number 3, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2021
Questions about gift economies
- What is gift economies the plural of?
- Gift economies is the plural of gift economy.
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