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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Money Wisdom #22
"Whatever has value in our world now does not have value in itself, according to its nature - nature is always value-less, but has been given value at some time, as a present - and it was we who gave and bestowed it."
Monday, December 19, 2011
A Bit of Christmas Wisdom
I'd thought I'd share this little bit of wisdom with you. You're unlikely to have come across it unless you're a money freak like me because it comes from Theodore Caplow's 1984 paper Rule enforcement without visible means: Christmas Gift Giving in Middletown which was originally published in American Journal of Sociology 89:1306-23. I came across it in James Carrier's excellent Gifts and Commodities - Exchange & Western Capitalism since 1700. Are you ready for this?
Women are particularly resentful of oversized items that seem to say that the giver perceives them as "fat".
You can keep your Higgs Boson, this is the sort of thing we need to know.
Anyways, to briefly update you, I'm still working on my Owning & Owing piece. Its turned from and extended blog post into something more like an essay.
Have a Merry Christmas!
Women are particularly resentful of oversized items that seem to say that the giver perceives them as "fat".
Theodore Caplow (1984: 1314)
You can keep your Higgs Boson, this is the sort of thing we need to know.
Anyways, to briefly update you, I'm still working on my Owning & Owing piece. Its turned from and extended blog post into something more like an essay.
Have a Merry Christmas!
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