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Anthropology

George Foster's model of peasant societies that see all goods as finite, so one person's gain is another's loss.

In anthropology, limited good refers to George Foster's model of peasant societies that see all goods as finite, so one person's gain is another's loss. This meaning comes from Foster (1965) in American Anthropologist.[1]

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gain4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs good2 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs loss2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Foster, G. M. (1965). Peasant Society and the Image of Limited Good. American Anthropologist, 67(2), 293-315. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1965.67.2.02a00010

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