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washingtonpost.com: Bearing Gifts, They Come From Afar

“A gift economy is indeed an economy — you can rationally expect that if you tender a gift, sooner or later you will receive some kind of return.

“But the return is indirect. And expectation of a return can be idealistic, even mystical.”

One of the two articles mentioned by Aldon in Psyber-l

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