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Stone Age Economics by Marshall Sahlins is a landmark work of economic anthropology first published in the 1970s and later issued in Routledge Classics. It is not a conventional economics text, but a collection of essays that examine how human societies organize production, exchange, and subsistence under very different cultural conditions from modern market economies. Sahlins is best known here for arguing against the assumption that hunter-gatherers lived in perpetual poverty or scarcity. Instead, he presents them as the original affluent society because their material wants were limited and their social arrangements often allowed for substantial leisure. The book’s larger purpose is to show that economic behavior cannot be understood apart from kinship, reciprocity, redistribution, and symbolic life. By challenging formal economic models and Western ideas of progress, the book asks readers to rethink what counts as wealth, efficiency, and human well-being.