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When the value contained in physical goods or services changes hands. Actions crossing. I do this and you do that in return. The crossing is the agreement that creates the value. Markets facilitate agreements, actions, transactions, but not without cost. If I have a need and you have the thing to satisfy it, I might look long and hard to find you and you might pay something to deliver it to me. Distance, diffusion and disconnection raise transaction costs. Higher costs hinder trade, satisfaction, value, and good, common or otherwise. |
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When the value contained in physical goods or services changes hands. Actions crossing. I do this and you do that in return. The crossing is the agreement that creates the value. Markets facilitate agreements, actions, transactions, but not without cost. If I have a need and you have the thing to satisfy it, I might look long and hard to find you and you might pay something to deliver it to me. Distance, diffusion and disconnection raise transaction costs. Higher costs hinder trade, satisfaction, value, and good, common or otherwise. Efficient markets lower transaction costs. More exchange takes place with greater ease. Buyers and sellers, organizers and funders, volunteers and needs find each other with increasing speed and decreasing effort. |
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Everybody has them, and almost nobody can use up all of their innate human giftedness. Many of us spend our whole lives looking for where we can use the abundance of who we are. Some people work secure jobs their whole lives and die with their music inside of them. Others starve for security in this world even as they share they share all of who they are. Some gifts are about art, others are about vision or management or healing. Gifts are deeper and older than skills, the things we knew before we started studying. |
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Everybody has them, and almost nobody can use up all of their innate human giftedness. Many of us spend our whole lives looking for where we can use the abundance of who we are. Some people work secure jobs their whole lives and die with their music inside of them. Others starve for security in this world even as they share they share all of who they are. Some gifts are about art, others are about vision or management or healing. Gifts are deeper and older than skills, the things we knew before we started studying. Some gifts are denominated in dollars or other currencies. |
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Good. A good deal. An improvement. A desire or need satisfied. The satisfaction that comes from helping or being helped, a project well done. The world made even just a little bit better for even a few people or other beings. Usually 'realized' or made real through the agreement of two or more people, an agreement that manifests in a market exchange between the two. If one says it's good, and the other agrees, then the deal is done, the sale made, the value held up as real. Value manifests in markets when buyer and seller, asker and offerer, agree on a transaction. |
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Good. A good deal. An improvement. A desire or need satisfied. The satisfaction that comes from helping or being helped, a project well done. The world made even just a little bit better for even a few people or other beings. Usually 'realized' or made real through the agreement of two or more people, an agreement that manifests in a market exchange between the two. If one says it's good, and the other agrees, then the deal is done, the sale made, the value held up as real. Value manifests in markets when buyer and seller, asker and offerer, agree to do the deal. |
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The set of market transactions that occur, often between highly specialized organizations, when the thing held in over-abundance is money and the unmet needs are those of the common good. Philanthropy matches individual money held in corporate and community trusts with community organizations and agencies dedicated to serving common individuals, the so-called common good, in need. |
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The set of market transactions that match gifts and projects in order to create value for everyone. |
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