Anthropologists reject the idea of the profit motive as the sole explanation of human motivation and behavior. Nevertheless, the profit motive does have a lot of explanatory power for market economies which are the economic foundation for modern nation-states. Using the ideas of the World Systems Theory, discuss how capitalism, colonialism, and globalization have contributed to the dominance – and thus hegemony – of the market economy, giving the profit motive the appearance of being universal.

Anthropologists reject the idea of the profit motive as the sole explanation of human motivation and behavior. Nevertheless, the profit motive does have a lot of explanatory power for market economies which are the economic foundation for modern nation-states. Using the ideas of the World Systems Theory, discuss how capitalism, colonialism, and globalization have contributed to the dominance – and thus hegemony – of the market economy, giving the profit motive the appearance of being universal.