Primitive, archaic, and modern economies
Subtitle: essays of Karl Polanyi
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Economics; Economic anthropology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Societies and economic systems; title: The self-regulation market and the fictitious commodities: Land, labor, and money; title: Class interest and social change; title: Our obsolete market mentality; title: Aristotle discovers the economy; title: The place of economies in societies; title: The economy as instituted process; title: The semantics of money-use; title: Redistribution: The state sphere in eighteenth-century dahomey; title: Ports of trade in early societies; title: Sortings and 'ounce trade' in the west African slave trade; title: Archaic economic institutions: Cowrie money; title: On the comparative treatment of economic institutions in antiquity with illustrations from Athens, Mycenae, and Alalakh.