Which of the Following Is an Example of Redistribution

question 106

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of redistribution?

• A) A Trobriand chief is provided many yams and other items by his kin;he trades most of these to neighbouring islands for items to increase his people's prestige.
• B) For the past five years on your birthdays,you give your best friend a pound of expensive dark chocolate,and your friend gives you a pound of fine Indonesian coffee.
• C) An Incan emperor receives tributes of wealth and labour and uses this wealth to maintain roads and bridges and to send food to a region experiencing crop failure.
• D) A lawyer on your street volunteers one day a week at a food bank and shovels her elderly neighbour's walk every morning in the winter.