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Social ideals and the concept of profit in thirteenth-century Icelandessay 1992 • Helgi þorláksson & Schudder, Bernard
Early Icelanders • Europe > Scandinavia
Substantivism is a theory in economic anthropology in which adherents study simple societies '…in which little or no sense of the market exists and the notion of producing for a market is relatively insignificant' (p. 231). Since Icelandic society be...