Abstract
Community wealth created from improvements in production techniques and by economic development takes two forms. One is absolute changes in quantity. The other is relative changes in the pattern of distribution. Because units of wealth are unstandardized, communities are difficult to compare based on absolute wealth differences. Four patterns of wealth distribution-hyper and normal equality, status and hyper inequality-reflect relative differences in the way wealth is distributed. No communities have perfect or hyper equality. The pattern for egalitarian, tribal communities is for wealth to be more normally distributed. Hierarchical communities have status inequality. The pattern for communities in societies with considerable dependence on external markets is for wealth to be very concentrated in the hands of a few people-hyper inequality.
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