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Many anthropologists will agree that economics seems to be the base of cultures found around the world. Carl Marx was one of the first philosophers to make this assumption. He suggested that life starts with the things you do, meaning the things you do to make a living. Marx suggests that a cultures means of profit influence the culture itself. For example many towns across America center around a large factory that employees a large percent of the towns population. Economics is used by anthropologists in ways that do not always refer to typical understandings of the word, industry, money and profit. In many societies outside of the western world are not accustomed to factory work or work as we in America perceive the word. But these societies still have a running economic system, therefore in terms of anthropology economics takes on a much different meaning. Economics is now defines as, the processes and practices by which humans transform the natural environment into usable goods and services for humans. In order for a society to have a n economic system three things need to take place, production, distribution and consumption. Production refers to a particular phase of operation in which raw materials are transformed into usable goods.
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