Notes on Gift Failure versus Market Failure: Analyzing the Generation and Circulation of Intellectual Products - 2009

Authors

Wendy J. Gordon, Boston University School of LawFollow

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Notes

Publication Date

2009

Abstract

Gifts and gift exchanges can serve a combination of economic, personal, social and humanitarian ends. This article explores how intellectual products are unusually capable of serving these ends through gift relations, and suggests ways in which the law can assist in this process.

Recommended Citation

Wendy J. Gordon, Notes on Gift Failure versus Market Failure: Analyzing the Generation and Circulation of Intellectual Products (2009).

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