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Staple Finance, Wealth Finance, and Storage in the Inka Political Economy

Terence N. D’Altroy, Timothy Earle · 1985

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A source used for the bounded Tawantinsuyu case: Staple Finance, Wealth Finance, and Storage in the Inka Political Economy.

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Where this source is used

  • D’Altroy and Earle analyze labor and stored staples as finance for state power, foregrounding compulsory extraction and logistical control that a reciprocity-only account can obscure.

    • supports · pp. 187–206, especially pp. 190–197

  • This imperial case does not embody socialism, communism, statelessness, or timeless Andean collectivism: it joined communal institutions and reciprocal idioms to ranked authority, conquest, compulsory labor, royal estates, and local variation.

    • context · pp. 187–206