Miscellaneous Explanations of Exchange Styles
Miscellaneous Explanations of Exchange Styles
1:
They shared the food they took in a small group of blood relatives.
2:
The more people, the less successful it will be -> need a "governing" (RULE) mechanism
Protect if you obey, punish if you don't follow the rules, state, exchange style B
3:
Private "contracts" made possible by the power of the state to "punish you if you don't play by the rules".
If you break the contract, the state power retaliates against you, which creates a deterrent and protects the contract.
Currency, investment, markets, division of labor with faceless people, capitalism, mechanisms broader than the state, modes of exchange C
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