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Gift-Giving Or Market?

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  • Philippe Steiner

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Human body parts (HBP) are made available to professionals either through market relations or through gift-giving. Market transactions were made legal in Iran during the 1980s; but this solution did not spread to the rest of the world. Nevertheless, the mere existence of a possible alternative to the current policy in favor of gift-giving opens up a political issue: are market relations legitimate and efficient in the domain of organ procurement? Once so stated, the question becomes: are economists able to perform such commerce as just another form of market relations? After a discussion of Michel Callon's theory of performativity, justifying the use of a restricted definition of performativity, the paper examines Alvin Roth's suggestion that a computerized matching market for non-compatible pairs of donor-recipient be created, and explains why this is a consistent example of performativity of gift-giving.

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  • Philippe Steiner, 2010. "Gift-Giving Or Market?," Journal of Cultural Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 3(2), pages 243-259, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jculte:v:3:y:2010:i:2:p:243-259
    DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2010.494374
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    1. Nicolas Brisset, 2016. "Institutions as Emergent Phenomena: Redefining Downward Causation," Working Papers halshs-01425669, HAL.
    2. Nicolas Brisset, 2017. "What Do We Learn from Market Design?," GREDEG Working Papers 2017-03, Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France.
    3. Joel Ntsonde & Franck Aggeri, 2019. "Circular economy as a performative concept based on a rational utopia," Post-Print hal-02168910, HAL.

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