Notes on the Place Occupied by Economies in Societies
Prefatory remarks
I. Limitations of market-derived economic disciplines
II. The comparative and developmental study of economic institutions in early societies. Example: Prestige and the economy
(a) Unawareness of the economy
(b) Fields of empirical study
(c) Institutional analysis
(d) Archaic economic institutions
(e) Cora DuBois: 'prestige economy'
(f) Grain imports on Samos and fish procurement of the Pomo Indians
(g) The Preisphora; the nexum; The Alcmeonids
(h) Treasure and power
(i) Elite circulation of treasure: The Alcmeonids
(j) Tyrannie and treasure: The Peistratids
III. Semantics of money uses
(a) Pseudo-philosophy of money
(b) All purpose and special purpose money
(c) Exchange money
(d) The payment use of money
(e) Hearding or storage-use of money
(f) Use of money as a standard
(g) Treasure and staple finance
(h) Babylonia and Dahomey
Text Informations
Reference:
Date: 1955 - March 1956
KPA: 33/03, 3-54
See also: “The Semantics of Money-Uses”