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-    As with the principle of householding (Aristotle/Polanyi) which consists of catering
+    production for use instead of for gain.
-    for one's own household, which has nothing in common either with the motive of gain or
-    with the institution of markets. Its patterrn is the closed group: whether the very
+    principle of householding which consists of catering for one's own household,
-    different entities of the family or the settlement or the manor formed the
+    which has nothing in common either with the motive of gain or with the institution
-    self-sufficient unit, the principle was invariably the same, namely, that of producing
+    of markets. Its pattern is the closed group: whether the very different entities
-    and storing for the satisfaction of the wants of the members of the group.
+    of the family or the settlement or the manor formed the self-sufficient unit;
+    the principle was invariably the same, namely, that of producing and storing
+    for the satisfaction of the wants of the members of the group. The nature of the
+    institutional nucleus is indifferent: it may be sex as with the patriarchal family,
+    locality as with the village settlement, or political power as with
+    the seigneurial manor. Nor does the internal organization of the group matter. It may
+    be as despotic as the Roman familia or as democratic as the South Slav zadruga; as
+    large as the, great domains of the Carolingian magnates or as small as the average
+    peasant holding of Western Europe.
+    human activity cannot be detached from life in order to be stored and mobilised.
+    (Aristotle/Polanyi)