Spanish term (edited): "no de mercado"

http://anthro.palomar.edu/economy/econ_2.htm

Typically, there is a low level of technological knowledge in societies with non-market economies. There is a preoccupation with the daily and, at most, seasonal food supply because techniques for long term preservation of are generally inadequate. They usually consist only of drying or smoking perishable items. Work teams are small and usually only include members of the local community. Large-scale collaboration on subsistence jobs is of short duration if it occurs at all because most tasks are relatively simple and require only a few people.



Non-market economy
Polynesian teenagers
sharing their catch to
feed their families




Market economy
North American office
worker exchanging his
time and work for money

Work related interactions between individuals are of a face-to-face personal kind in non-market economies. People who work together hunting, gathering, herding, or tending crops are usually kinsmen or lifelong friends and neighbors. Little or no attempt is made to calculate the contribution of individuals or to calculate individual shares of what is produced. Social pressure generally obligates individuals to freely share food and other products of

"...classified as not-competitive market economies"