ANTH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Telecommuting, Structural Adjustment, Neoliberalism
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What is an economy, and what is its purpose: production, distribution and consumption, a brief survey of food production: food foraging, pastoralism, horticulture, agriculture, What is an economy and what is its purpose: distribution and exchange: market exchange, reciprocity, redistribution. What role has colonialism played in forming the modern world economic system: the triangle trade, the industrial revolution: the colonies" essential role, competition under capitalism. What is the state: service"s view of the state, the modern western-style state, aspects of state power. What role has colonialism played in forming the modern world economic and political. System: anticolonial struggles: national independence movements, the algerian experience, the modern world economic system: con icting theories, core and periphery, Development: intervention philosophy: ideological justi cation for outsiders to guide native peoples in speci c directions, economic development plans also have political intervention philosophies, beliefs underlying interventions: industrialization, modernization, westernization, and individualism are desirable.