Download Old Traditional Economy

Old Traditional Economy
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Origins associated with family evolution
and religion
K.Polanyi and the issue of embeddedness
Typology of traditional economies
Origins
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Nature and the natural division of labor
Tradition and simple reporduction
Religion
Primitive communism
Polanyi and non-market
economies
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Economic determinism
Embeddedness and socio-cultural traits
Rational behavior and incentives
Homo oeconomicus.
Typology
Household Economy and self-sufficiency
 Reciprocal Economy/primitive exchange
general reciprocity
balanced reciprocity
negative reciprocity
Redistributive economy: oriental despotism
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Tradition and Market
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Schools of economic anthropology
Formalism and substantivism
convergence argument
majority of decision-making
Particularism
Evolutionism
Marxism