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   Jane Smith studied economics and sociology in Utrecht and philosophy in Paris. She has taught at the universities of Groningen and Budapest. She is currently Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and a research fellow in the UNESCO Program on Ethics and Economics. She is the author of The Economy of the Gift (Carvell, 1994), and joint editor, with Sacha Korsakofsy, of Post-Capitalist Economies (University of Alaska Press, 1998). Her current research is on the ethical presuppositions of political economy.

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