He seems to have known something about the modern economic theory of society long before modern economics was even developed.

而且是公开的驳斥,他似乎已知现代社会的经济原理,且是在现代经济学开始发展之前。

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Economics deals with the transactions involving the production and distribution of wealth sociology with the transaction governing status and class anthropology with the domain of culture and so on.

经济学处理,包含财富生产与分配的交易,社会学处理,管治地位与阶级的问题,人类学专注于文化，依此类推。

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