- Define economic behavior, and give examples of situations in which people use it and in which they do not.
- Summarize the ways in which people in foraging, pastoral, horticultural, and agricultural societies allocate resources.
- Explain how people in both small-scale and complex societies use households, kin groups, and firms to organize labor.
- Discuss systems of distribution and consumption by analyzing reciprocity, reproduction, and market exchange.
- Identify the key characteristics of capitalism and give examples of them.