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Unpublished Paper
Market and Non-Market Exchange: Complements or Substitutes?
(2023)
  • Felipe Balmaceda
Abstract
There is a long-standing debate about the relationship between market exchange, non-market exchange, and market-supporting institutions. Some intellectuals contend that markets reinforce certain conditions necessary to have a vibrant non-market exchange, while others argue that markets promote individualism and annihilate individuals in a way that displaces social ties and, thereby, non-market exchange. This paper shows that non-market and market exchange are complements, in the sense that both rise as the quality of market-supporting institutions improve, when the equilibrium payoff from market exchange rises with the quality of market-supporting institutions, the capital market is well developed, and the endowments is large enough so that individuals participate in both market and non-market exchange. Otherwise, they are substitutes.
Keywords
  • Market Exchange,
  • Non-Market Exchange,
  • Complementarity,
  • Community,
  • Market-supporting Institutions,
  • Norms
Publication Date
Spring June 2, 2023
Citation Information
Felipe Balmaceda. "Market and Non-Market Exchange: Complements or Substitutes?" (2023)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/felipe_balmaceda/27/