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In the decades prior to the 1980s, governments around the world increased the scope and magnitude of their activities, taking on a variety of tasks that the private sector previously performed. In the late 1970s, led by Great Britain, privatization became common: The objective o…

In 2014, Howard Fried inventoried his deceased mother’s wardrobe in anticipation of exchanging its contents with a group of strangers. In 2001, John D. Freyer sold over all of his personal possessions on eBay and used these sales as the starting point for social exchanges with t…