Properties	Purchasing gasoline	Purchasing a haircut	Recycling	Voting
Exchange setting	Impersonal market setting.	Market setting with personalized service.	Nonmarket personalized or non-personalized setting depending on where recycling occurs.	Personalized non-market setting.
How terms and level of exchange are determined	Market determined.	Amount of tip is personally determined and depends on the customer/barber relationship.	Time, effort, and commodities spent recycling are personally determined.	Time, effort, and commodities spent voting are personally determined.
Substitutability	Near perfect substitutes exist.	One barber/stylist is not a perfect substitute for another. Depends on customer preference.	Few substitutes exist for recycling.	No good substitutes for voting.
What determines the value of the good	Depends mostly on physical properties.	Depends on physical properties and the relational goods exchanged during the service.	Depends mostly on the relational goods received when recycling.	Depends mostly on the relational goods received when voting.
Capital used in the productions of the good.	Mostly manufactured, natural, human, and financial capital.	Combination of manufactured, natural, human, financial capital and social capital	Combination of manufactured, natural, human, financial capital and social capital	Combination of manufactured, natural, human, financial capital but mainly social capital
How the value of the good is changed	Impersonal market forces.	Depends on exchanges of relational goods during the haircut and the quality of the haircut.	Depends on exchanges of relational goods associated with recycling.	Depends on exchanges of relational goods associated with voting.
Needs satisfied	Mostly physical transportation needs.	Mostly socio-emotional needs for internal and external validation, some belonging needs, and some physical needs associated with hair length management.	Mostly socio emotional needs for internal validation—that one is doing the right thing.	Mostly socio emotional needs for internal validation—that one is doing the right thing and external validation from approving others.
Durability	Not durable.	Limited durability but frequently repeated.	Mostly non-durable but frequently repeated.	Mostly non-durable but frequently repeated.
Certification	Externally regulated.	Some external regulation through inspections but customer is most often the one certifying the quality of the service.	Some external certification on what materials can be recycled but recyclers internally certify most of the recycling.	Some external certification on how to vote but most of the voting certification is internally provided.