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There are subjective aspects inspired by ethics and human value that are a substantial base for sharing between people. The “gift” is one of these aspects. It is the act by which a person voluntarily disposes of a good or service for the benefit of another person (or organization), without financial compensation. If there are no monetary benefits, can we even be talking of an economic act? The question seems absurd.

Most of the time, gifting is not approached from an economic perspective, but rather from a socio-philosophical point of view. Thus, “a gift is a privileged object of anthropology and economic sociology since the essay on gifting by M. Mauss”⁵ (Athané 2008).