Overlapping Economies

Just a quick note that I wanted to add to class lecture.  Today, I tried to dissect the concept of an economic system by explicitly teasing apart allocation, production, distribution (and consumption..though I didn't mention it).  Dissecting even further, I separated types of distribution--specifically looking at varieties of reciprocity.

In an actual society, most or all of these aspects of economies overlap.  For instance, while the US economy is dominated by market exchange and a capitalist mode of production, we all also participate in household (sort of like kin-ordered) modes of production and in a variety of reciprocal exchanges.

Societies like the Ju/'hoansi simply are much more dominated by communal modes of production and reciprocal economies.