These principles were those of reciprocity, reallocation and house holding, and they were embedded in the way the civil and politic societies interacted. The end of the century however brought by the first signs of disembeddment and they revolved around the transformation of land and labor force into commodities. For the European countries for instance, a disembedded economy referred also to the territorial expansion of the companies. In this understanding then, the developed European countries had expanded their operations and moved to wider markets, where they increased their access to customers and also their revenues. And not only that they began to sell their products to larger audiences, but they also began to acquire cheaper commodities from the foreign regions; they employed cheaper workforce in the region; and operations of international transfer of capital begun to emerge.
Ultimately then, an embedded economy is generally an enclosed and protectionist one, and a disembedded system is based on free international operations. The second concept enjoys a contemporaneous application, in the form of market liberalization and globalization (Halperin, 2004).
4. Aristotle's Views on Acquisitions
Aristotle's views on economics are rather limited at even flawed at times. However, they are worth a look. The Greek philosopher classified the acquisition operations into two types: natural acquisitions and unnatural acquisitions. Natural acquisitions referred to the daily occupations of the individual which did not affect other lives. For instance, Aristotle included in the category of natural acquisitions occupations such as farming, hunting, fishing or raising sheep. The unnatural acquisition of wealth was derived from occupations of trade, which generated grater impacts upon others and which were unlimited. He emphasized on what he believed to be the moral and economic benefits of natural acquisition of wealth, in the detriment of commerce wealth (Philosophy 101).
As the philosopher concluded, unnatural acquisition is unlimited, whereas natural acquisition is limited. The limitations are given by the fact that the wealth accumulated is mainly destined...
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