On 08/02/2008, Matthias-Christian Ott ott@enolink.de wrote:
Alex Hudson home@alexhudson.com wrote:
Again, I have no problem with a gift economy, except for the suggestion that it should be "the way" rather than "a way". There are substantial problems with gift economies which many academics have written about: there's nothing wrong with making money that way, but it's no perfect solution.
Do you have some openly accessible academic works that you cite. Maybe you could sum it up in your own words or so. Because the only thing that's wrong with such a gift economy with our economical framework is the consciousness of the people. But as the first artists stop making art, people will recognise, that it's absolutely necessary to donate.
I too would be *most* interested in actual citations to this claimed academic viewpoint, because I'm amazed never to have encountered such a thing ever before.
- d.