Eagleton. Blathering on like that about the blindingly obvious is enough to make you go back to Culture and Anarchy with some relief (Arnold's prose is exemplary). These days though, the action is in the history of settled and nomadic people and their interactions. It's good intellectual progress that culture is no longer the exclusive province of settled folk. At least two cheers. And now we need to wonder how culture comes about without cultivation. A. Smith teaches that the parts of price are the wages of labor, the profits of stock and the rent of land. No one agrees any more, but no one has reformulated that trinity (Schumpeter adds to it) to replace rents. In fact 'rents' have become more important in economic theory as time has gone on. M. Sahlins has Stone Age Economics (not just a Second City gag) and that might be a starting point. What does economics (or bowing to Eagleton, labor) look like when you abstract from the nomadic/settled distinction?
Eagleton. Blathering on like that about the blindingly obvious is enough to make you go back to Culture and Anarchy with some relief (Arnold's prose is exemplary). These days though, the action is in the history of settled and nomadic people and their interactions. It's good intellectual progress that culture is no longer the exclusive province of settled folk. At least two cheers. And now we need to wonder how culture comes about without cultivation. A. Smith teaches that the parts of price are the wages of labor, the profits of stock and the rent of land. No one agrees any more, but no one has reformulated that trinity (Schumpeter adds to it) to replace rents. In fact 'rents' have become more important in economic theory as time has gone on. M. Sahlins has Stone Age Economics (not just a Second City gag) and that might be a starting point. What does economics (or bowing to Eagleton, labor) look like when you abstract from the nomadic/settled distinction?