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212 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521406826
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11 June 1992
Description
Economists treat barter as an inefficient alternative to market exchange, assuming that it is normal only in primitive economies. For their part, anthropologists are more concerned with the social and moral complexities of the "gift," and treat ba...
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212 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521406826
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11 June 1992
Description
Economists treat barter as an inefficient alternative to market exchange, assuming that it is normal only in primitive economies. For their part, anthropologists are more concerned with the social and moral complexities of the "gift," and treat ba...