Purpose The study uses the case of an online-mediated barter economy that proliferated during COVID-19 crisis to highlight Indigenous notions barter, trade and exchange. Design/methodology/approach A netnographic approach was employed which involved collecting online posts comments were stored analysed in NVivo. This supplemented with field notes reflections from authors intimate knowledge cont...

This study aims to analyze the barter transactions of salt farmers and then elaborate on concept bai' mabrūr in carried out by community Jeneponto Regency. The research method used is descriptive qualitative with a sharia economic approach. results show that have occurred since ancient times are still ongoing today. objects exchanged basic necessities, such as rice, sugar, coffee cigarettes. ex...

Sir Peter Barter, with notes by Edward P. Wolfers, describes the creative and community work of Robert Banasi Madang Art Maniacs (MAM) during COVID-19 pandemic. MAM’s public art production has endeavoured to raise awareness about pandemic practices promote health in Madang, capital Province Papua New Guinea, nearby rural communities.

A feedback-based scheme for energy conservative cooperative content distribution for mobile systems is presented together with analysis of its behavior in simulated operation. The mechanism described is designed to address problems of co-operation in transient groups, where group members are assumed to act selfishly to preserve their limited resources. Properties of the resulting barter-trade l...

ERLACS – European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies is an Open Access, scientific journal. It publishes peer-reviewed articles in English Spanish. Contributions reflect substantial empirical research and/or are theoretically innovative with respect to major debates within social science (understood the broadest sense, including history economics) on America Caribbean. In addition a...

We attempt in this paper to tie together several basic insights of praxeology, and several that are not at all that basic. These include the following: that gains from exchange are subjective; that this applies to profits and interest; that credit transactions can occur under barter; that interest arises from time preference even under a pure time preference theory of interest; and that product...