Gifts, Bribes, and Exchange: Relationships in Non-Market Economies and Lessons for Pax E-Commercia
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Relationships in Non-Market
Economies and Lessons for
Pax E-Commercia
Timothy L. Fort* & James J. Noone**
Introduction ..................................................... 516
I. What is So Bad About Bribery? ........................... 518
A. Moral Arguments Against Bribery ..................... 519
B. A Cybernetic Argument ............................... 523
1. The Corporate Analogy ............................. 524
2. A Detour Through Hawaii .......................... 528
II. Lessons from Anthropology .............................. 531
A. Fundamentally, Nothing is a Gift: The Role of Self-
Interest ............................................... 531
B. The Spiritial Nature of Giving ......................... 534
1. Public Nature of the Gift as a Protection ............. 536
2. Public Nature of the Gift ........................... 536
3. Alienability ........................................ 537
4. Peace, Corruption, and Cybernetic Structures ........ 538
5. The C2 Principles: A Commentary ................... 541
6. Mediating Institutions .............................. 542
Conclusion ...................................................... 545
Oro[, the High Priest thoughtj was a powerful god. He had accomplished
what no other god before him had attained: the consolidation of all the
islands... a master god like Oro merited supreme sacrifices like sharks and
men .... King Tamatoa's thoughts were different... he felt... considerable
uneasiness over the fact that the total of sacrifices for any given convocation
had now been established as nine [men], plus more perhaps according to the
chances of the day. The king wondered: Is this sudden conversion to Oro a
device by the wise men of Haviki whereby they can depopulate my island and
thus accomplish by guile what they have always been unable to do by
battle?.. . Then, for the first time he expressed in words his real perplexity:
It is very difficult to be king when the gods are changing. 1
* Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Business School. Ph.D., J.D.,
Northwestern University; M.A., B.A., University of Notre Dame.
** Ph.D., A.B.D. (Archeology), University Of Michigan; B.A., Bates College.
1. JAMEs A. MICHENER, HAwAi 34-35 (1959) (describing the takeover of a South
Pacific island named Havild, which led to the emigration from it and the travel to and
settling of Hawaii).
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