The economy of ancient Egypt can be possible described as a ‘redistributive system’. And that is because it depended on collecting commodities and storing it in granaries for use as future rations to the Pharaoh’s subjects, provision for the royal palace and its dependants, to personnel attached to temples, and the workmen in the royal necropolis. Therefore this system expresses a centrally based bureaucracy that collected from its subjects only to redistribute to them later C. Eyre argues that the term “redistribution” does not explain how the economy works; he also calls it a “misconception, or rather over-simplification”.In other words, the “redistribution” implies that goods "which are collectively produced, centrally collected and stored" are returned "to the producers"
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