Re: Tributary Mode of Prod.

Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:52:09 -0700 (MST)
Albert J Bergesen (albert@U.Arizona.EDU)

there are two problems with the tributary mode: (i) it is a societal
concept and does not bridge the east/west divide in its essence, and (ii)
it would greatly underestimate the amount of Asian and other economic
activity that is no different from western production/exchange except that
it is called something from a "tributary mode of production" rather than a
"capitalist mode of production".


Albert Bergesen
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721
Phone: 520-621-3303
Fax: 520-621-9875
email: albert@u.arizona.edu