Economic anthropology

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thumb|Buildings of shops, hotels, and residences are prevalent forms of property. Property is a system of rights that gives people legal control of valuable things, and also refers to the valuable things themselves. Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property may have the right to consume, alter, share, rent, sell, exchange, transfer, give away, or destroy it, or to exclude others from doing these things, as well as to perhaps abandon it; whereas regardless of the nature of the property, the owner thereof has the right to properly use it under the granted property rights.

separation of tasks in any system (particularly the society) so that participants may specialize

Hungarian economist, philosopher and historian

mode of production

mode of exchange where valuables are given without rewards

scholarly field that attempts to explain human economic behavior in its widest historic, geographic and cultural scope

interplay between economic systems, nutritional status and food security

thumb|Axe-money from Mexico at the Prehistory Museum of Valencia

set of social practices, social norms, values and patterns of behavior that are attributed to the capitalist economic system in a capitalist society

In economics and economic sociology, embeddedness refers to the degree to which economic activity is constrained by non-economic institutions. The term was created by economic historian Karl Polanyi as part of his substantivist approach. Polanyi argued that in non-market societies there are no pure economic institutions to which formal economic models can be applied. In these cases economic activities such as "provisioning" are "embedded" in non-economic kinship, religious and political institutions. In market societies, in contrast, economic activities have been rationalized, and economic act

Substantivism is an economic position that helps to explain the social relations embedded within the economy. It was first proposed by Karl Polanyi, who argues that the term "economics" has two meanings. The formal meaning, used by today's neoclassical economists, refers to economics as the logic of rational action and decision-making, as rational choice between the alternative uses of limited (scarce) means, as "economizing", "maximizing", or "optimizing".