The Gift

Algazi, Gadi, Valentin Groebner, and Bernhard Jussen, eds. Negotiating the Gift: Pre-Modern Figurations of Exchange. Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2003.

Aristotle. "Nicomachean Ethics." In The Basic Works of Aristotle, edited by Richard McKeon. New York: Random House, 1941.

Bataille, Georges. The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Zone Books, 1988–1991. Published in French in 1947.

Bentham, Jeremy. An Introduction to the The Principles of Morals and Legislation. 1789. Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.

Caillé, Alain. Don, intérêt et désintéressement: Bourdieu, Mauss, Platon et quelques autres (Gift, interest, and selflessness: Bourdieu, Mauss, Plato and others). Paris: La Découverte/MAUSS, 1994.

Carrier, James G. Gifts and Commodities: Exchange and Western Capitalism since 1700. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.

Clavero, Bartolomé. La grâce du don: Anthropologie catholique de l'économie moderne (The grace of the gift: Catholic anthropology and early modern economy). Translated from the Spanish by Jean-Frédéric Schaub. Paris: Albin Michel, 1996.

Davis, Natalie Zemon. The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Derrida, Jacques. Donner le temps (Given time). Paris: Éditions Galilée, 1991.

Godbout, Jacques T. Le don, la dette et l'identité: Homo donator versus homo oeconomicus (Gift, debt and identity: Homo donator versus homo oeconomicus). Montréal: Éditions du Boréal, 2000.

Godelier, Maurice. L'énigme du don (The enigma of the gift). Paris: Fayard, 1996.

Groebner, Valentin. Liquid Assets, Dangerous Gifts: Presents and Politics at the End of the Middle Ages. Translated by Pamela E. Selwyn. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

Hénaff, Marcel. Le prix de la verité: Le don, l'argent, la philosophie (The price of truth: gift, money, philosophy). Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2002.

Hirschman, Albert O. The Passions and the Interests. Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1977.

Hyde, Lewis. The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property. New York: Vintage Books, 1983.

Latouche, Serge. L'autre Afrique: Entre don et marché (The other Africa: Between gift and market). Paris: Albin Michel, 1998.

Malinowski, Bronislaw. Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea. 1922. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964.

Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling; edited by Frederick Engels. New York: Modern Library, 1906.

Mauss, Marcel. The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies. Translated by W. D. Halls. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1990. The best translation of Mauss's 1925 Essai sur le Don.

Nagel, Thomas. The Possibility of Altruism. Oxford: Clarendon, 1979.

Noonan, John T. Bribes. New York: Macmillan, 1984.

Peck, Linda Levy. Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England. London and Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990.

Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation. The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. New York: Rinehart, 1944.

——. Primitive, Archaic and Modern Economies; Essays of Karl Polanyi. Edited by George Dalton. Boston: Beacon Press, 1968.

Sahlins, Marshall. Stone Age Economics. Chicago: Aldine, 1972.

Seneca. On Benefits. Translated by Thomas Lodge. London: Aldine House, 1899.

Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. 1776. Edited by R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner. Oxford: Clarendon, 1976.

Thomas, Nicholas. Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Titmuss, Richard. The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy. New York: Vintage Books, 1972.

Wacquet, Jean-Claude. Corruption: Ethics and Power in Florence, 1600–1770. Translated by Linda McCall. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991.

Weiner, Annette B. Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-While-Giving. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992.

——. Women of Value, Men of Renown: New Perspectives in Trobriand Exchange. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976.