L. Fontaine's scientific contributions

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Article
Exchanges have always had more than economic significance: values circulate and encounters become institutionalized. This volume explores the changing meaning of the circulation of second-hand goods from the Renaissance to today, and thereby examines the blurring of boundaries between market, gifts, and charity. It describes the actors of the marke...

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... The stakes of this issue become clear if we consider how CE principles have been put into practice to date. Reuse and recycling, two components of circular economies, have particularly extensive histories in practice and in the academic record (see, for example : Strasser 1999;Fontaine 2008). Unfortunately, these processes can provide ample illustration of the consequences associated with developing circular approaches without explicit attention to justice. ...