A list of fully functional Gift Economies

[The Man]

I'm trying to make a point with my Anarcho-Communist research paper (Which I chose so I don't have to do that much research, because I am one :thumbup1:) about that their are fully functional Gift Economies. I just wanted to make a list and I hope you guys can add to it as well.


Wikipedia (And other Wiki's)
A majority of Downloadable Content on the Internet
Science (Information Gift Economy)
Religious Sharing
Public WiFi


Add on to the list :)

[Rafiq]

RevLeft.
Youtube Non-Sellouts who make videos just for entertaining people

Free apps on the Android and Appstore markets.

[Robespierre Richard]

freeipods.com

[robbo203]

I'm trying to make a point with my Anarcho-Communist research paper (Which I chose so I don't have to do that much research, because I am one :thumbup1:) about that their are fully functional Gift Economies. I just wanted to make a list and I hope you guys can add to it as well.


Wikipedia (And other Wiki's)
A majority of Downloadable Content on the Internet
Science (Information Gift Economy)
Religious Sharing
Public WiFi

Add on to the list :)

The freecycle network with 8m plus members http://www.freecycle.org/

I would say also intentional communitites but assume you are looking for large scale examples

[Agent Ducky]

Websites where people make flash games and share them for free like addictinggames.com... That's the same idea, right? They're not quite downloadable but they're free and people spend a lot of time working on some of them.

I think the advent of the internet has made a lot of this very possible.

[Blackscare]

Wikipedia (And other Wiki's)
A majority of Downloadable Content on the Internet
Science (Information Gift Economy)
Religious Sharing
Public WiFi


Add on to the list :)

:confused:


None of those have anything to do with economics though.


Are you confusing the term 'gift economy' with cooperation?

[robbo203]

:confused:


None of those have anything to do with economics though.


Are you confusing the term 'gift economy' with cooperation?

Hmmm. Not sure that it would be the case that they dont "have anything to do with economics". Conventional mainstream economics would argue that they provide a service - have utility - and thus can be construed as economic activity. The problem with conventional eocnomics is the underlying assumption that economics exists as a separate "disembedded" facet of social existence governed by its own "laws" and should be treated as such.

[Post-Something]

Kula Exchange in Papua New Guinea is a good one to look at

[Black Sheep]

How are these "Gift economies".

An economy encompasses at least the goods needed for perpetuation of life and basic social needs (not biological).
I don't know anyone surviving by eating Ipods.

[The Man]

Well, I guess they are some sort of Information Gift Economy because the authors don't make any money off of it, and we don't have to buy it.

[Black Sheep]

Then it's "Giving away stuff"

[jbaez]

I'm not sure if it would be considered fully functional, as I wasn't there at this point in time, nor have I read enough about it, but some Spanish collectives in the 30's utilized gift economies in one form or another.

You might want to check out "The Anarchist Collectives" by Sam Dolgoff. If you search online you can find it on that scribd website. Sorry, I'd post a link but my post count isn't high enough yet.