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Exploring Economic Systems: From Barter to Capitalism

Unravel the norms governing production, distribution, and consumption of goods in society. Learn how economizing behavior and productive resources shape economic systems, from traditional reciprocity to modern capitalism.

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Exploring Economic Systems: From Barter to Capitalism

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  1. Chapter 8, Economics Key Terms

  2. Economic systemNorms governing production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services within a society. EconomicsThe study of how the choices people make determine how their society uses its resources to produce and distribute goods and services.

  3. Economizing behaviorChoosing a course of action that pursues the course of perceived maximum benefit. Prestige Social honor or respect.

  4. Productive resources Material goods, natural resources, or information that is used to create other goods or information. Capital resourcesProductive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owner’s financial wealth.

  5. HouseholdA group of people who share a residence and organize production, consumption, and distribution among themselves. Firm Institution that is organized primarily for financial gain.

  6. ReciprocityMutual give-and-take among people of equal status. Generalized reciprocityA distribution of goods with no immediate or specific return expected.

  7. Balanced reciprocityExchange of goods of nearly equal value, with a clear obligation to return them within a specified time limit. Kula ringA pattern of exchange among many trading partners in the Trobriands and other South Pacific islands.

  8. Negative reciprocityExchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing. RedistributionExchange in which goods are collected from members of the group and then redistributed to the group.

  9. Potlatch Form of competitive giveaway practiced by the Kwakiutl and other groups of the northwest coast of North America. Leveling mechanismA practice, value, or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society.

  10. Cargo systemRitual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices. Market exchange Economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a price determined by supply and demand

  11. Capitalism Economic system in which people work for wages, land and capital goods are privately owned, and capital is invested for individual profit.

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