Money

Associated Documents (7)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Pryor, Frederic L.The origins of money
Murdock, George PeterCorrelations of matrilineal and patrilineal institutions
Gershman, BorisThe economic origins of the evil eye belief
Pryor, Frederic L.The origins of the economy: a comparative study of distribution in primitive and peasant economies
Hrnčíř, VáclavArchaeology of slavery from cross-cultural perspective
Rudmin, Floyd WebsterCross-Cultural Correlates of the Ownership of Private Property

Associated Hypotheses (10)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Pryor, Frederic L.An association between extensive trade and money is more likely to be found in external commercial transactions than in internal commercial transactions (407).
Pryor, Frederic L.External and internal commercial money most likely emerged before noncommercial money (407).
Murdock, George Peter". . . patrilineal institutions [are] associated with the presence of traits indicative of higher civilization, matrilineal institutions with their absence. [Some of these are:] agriculture, [animal] domestication, writing, pottery, weaving, metals, [labor] specialization, money, [social] classes, government [and] priesthood . . ." (467)
Gershman, BorisIn weakly institutionalized traditional societies, the evil eye belief will be associated with wealth inequality.
Pryor, Frederic L.The labor, credit, land, and land rental markets are not related to the existence of money (148).
Pryor, Frederic L.At the very lowest levels of development, societies have relatively little market exchange and, in addition, usually lack all types of money (182).
Pryor, Frederic L.The presence of gambling is positively related to the presence of money (276).
Hrnčíř, VáclavThere will be a relationship between slavery and social complexity
Rudmin, Floyd WebsterCertain characteristics of societies will be significantly correlated in the same direction with both Simmons' (137) and Murdock's (1967) measures of private property ownership.

Associated OCMs

  1. exchange and transfers
  2. medium of exchange
  3. finance