On Carrasco's Use of Theoretical 'First Principles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2570200 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jerome A Offner (0000-0001-6929-9002, Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-74 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/279987 |
| OpenAlex | W2331972444 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 3 |
Due to excessive adherence to theoretical 'first principles' and consequent erroneous superficial textual analyses, Carrasco overstates political control over land and labor and understates the importance of marketing and forces of supply and demand in Aztec economies. The lack of evidence for price regulation and for the enforcement of sumptuary laws is exposed, while other evidence which indicates that the Texcocan (and other) tribute systems depended in many ways on Mesoamerican marketing systems is pointed out. The inadequacies in Carrasco's comments on the scale of Texcocan tribute income are evaluated along with the lack of diachronic depth in his analyses
Cartography · Economics · Enforcement · Geography · Macroeconomics · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Scale (ratio) · Sociology · Supply and demand · Tribute · History · Indigenous Cultures and History · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education · Latin American history and culture · Law
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| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1985 - 2018 (34) |
| Highly cited | No |