Stone Age Economics by Marshall Sahlins
A collection of essays that rethinks economic life in small-scale societies, arguing that many foragers achieved an “original affluent” condition by limiting wants and enjoying abundant leisure. It analyzes reciprocity, gift exchange, redistribution, and the domestic mode of production, showing how kinship and social obligations organize production and circulation. Through comparative ethnography, it contrasts embedded moral economies with market capitalism and challenges Western assumptions about scarcity, value, and rationality.
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- Published
- 1972
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- 280–350 pages
- Original Language
- English
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