In the area from the central Carolinian atolls to the Marshalls, marital relationships were usually rather loose and informal, although people of high rank may have had public ceremonies with some exchange of wealth.
To be sure we're on the same page, let's rehearse the definition: Random House Dictionary defines 'capitalism' as 'an economic system in which investment in, and ownership of, the means of production, distribution and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations.'.
They were also a medium of exchange, an index of wealth, and an important part of religious rituals.
The marriage market in Edith Wharton's "House of Mirth" turns on a financial issue: an exchange of beauty for wealth.
Wharton-educated chairman of investment bank CLSA-Exchange Capital gets bulk of wealth from family-held stake in Nickel Asia, which recently reported a 45% year-on-year decline in net income in the first six months of the year due to weak metal prices.
A new version of XML (the extensible mark-up language used to define the actual content as well as the layout of web pages) has been developed by Dr Hunter's group with Physiome Sciences, a company based in Princeton, New Jersey.The new language, CellML, offers a standard way of representing, and exchanging, the wealth of information contained in a variety of organ and cell models.
When Mr. Taylor, who lives in Boston, learned that federal authorities were looking into the Afghan contract, he turned to Robert Lustyik, the agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York, enticing the career agent with the promise of wealth in exchange for his help quashing the investigation, prosecutors said.
The elaboration of ceremonial architecture and funerary ritual of the Hongshan core zone is thus seen not to correspond to larger regional-scale communities, greater projection of political power, a more specialized economy, larger-scale exchange of goods, or accumulation of wealth.
Status is closely correlated with etiquette and morality and in many societies rises with the liberal use of wealth (see gift exchange; potlatch).
The last Budget was going to include some kind of wealth tax in exchange for cutting the top rate of income tax all the way down to 40p; only late nerves put paid to that agreement.
Over the centuries, gold, particularly because of its uniqueness when compared to a monetary unit, has operated as a reservoir of wealth, vehicle of exchange, and an item of merit (Goodman, 1956; Solt and Swanson, 1981).
