TY - JOUR
T1 - Emergence and collapse of money through reciprocity
AU - Shinohara, Shuji
AU - Pegio Gunji, Yukio
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2001/1/25
Y1 - 2001/1/25
N2 - In this paper we discuss that monetary exchange emerges in a reciprocal system which consists of donations and returns. Agents reciprocate goods alternately without bilateral agreement in the system, that is constructed not from the viewpoint of the recipient, but from the one of the reciprocator. Moreover, reciprocity is regarded as interaction with incomplete identification consisting of the alternate procedure of constructing a map from coarse-grained data by a contraction mapping and of applying the map to fine-grained data. We show that reciprocity gives rise to the monetary exchange which implies globality without the concept of metric space or global semantics. It seems that interaction with incomplete identification does not carry the notion of globality. On the contrary, in our model globality paradoxically occurs from the accumulation of indefinite incomplete identification.
AB - In this paper we discuss that monetary exchange emerges in a reciprocal system which consists of donations and returns. Agents reciprocate goods alternately without bilateral agreement in the system, that is constructed not from the viewpoint of the recipient, but from the one of the reciprocator. Moreover, reciprocity is regarded as interaction with incomplete identification consisting of the alternate procedure of constructing a map from coarse-grained data by a contraction mapping and of applying the map to fine-grained data. We show that reciprocity gives rise to the monetary exchange which implies globality without the concept of metric space or global semantics. It seems that interaction with incomplete identification does not carry the notion of globality. On the contrary, in our model globality paradoxically occurs from the accumulation of indefinite incomplete identification.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0096-3003(99)00169-1
DO - 10.1016/S0096-3003(99)00169-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0343290227
VL - 117
SP - 131
EP - 150
JO - Applied Mathematics and Computation
JF - Applied Mathematics and Computation
SN - 0096-3003
IS - 2-3
ER -