We consider a world in which the mode of food production, foraging or agriculture, is endogenous, and in which technology grows exogenously. Within a model of coalition formation, we allow individuals to rationally form cooperative communities (bands) of foragers or farmers. At the lowest levels...

Introducing modes of production in archaeology / Robert M. Rosenswig and Jerimy J. Cunningham -- Hunter-gatherer studies -- Modes of production in Southern California at the end of the eighteenth century / Thomas C. Patterson -- Applying modes of production analysis to non-state, or anarchic,...