The Gift economy in the capitalist world. An analysis from general equilibrium theory

Abstract

In this paper we try to analyze, from a neoclassical perspective, the Economy of Don and Collaborative Economics. This current issue is the result from a step beyond low - cost Economy where the consumer no longer seeks only the minimum cost but collaboration from the point of view of consumption, with the use of goods and services at the lowest possible price and even with the possibility to exchange not only of money but of own goods or services. This is revolutionizing the traditional market. But from a theoretical point of view, it is not nothing really new that was not already covered on the basis of classical theory and Adam Smith, which already interpreted the free market economy and the invisible hand as the will of each individual was the best way to regulate the market by itself.