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Prerequisites: 9 hours of social sciences and junior or senior standing. Offered in alternate years.
Comparative examination of kin-ordered, tributary, and capitalist modes of production, and of their various articulations. Reciprocity, redistribution, and markets as principles of exchange, and the interrelationships between ecology, economy, polity, society, and culture. Consumption as means to meet utilitarian needs and as a mode for the communication of socially relevant information. Culture and the identification and handling of waste. Formalist and substantivist definitions of economy, formal and informal economic organizations, the extension of market-derived discourse to social and cultural domains, and similar topics are discussed.
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