Cultures Merging: A Historical and Economic Critique of CulturePrinceton University Press, 10 jan 2009 - 328 pagina's "Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic historians--takes an eloquent, pointed, and personal look at the question of whether culture determines economics or is instead determined by it. |
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... Centuries , by F. M. Scherer The Strictures of Inheritance : The Dutch Economy in the Long Nineteenth Century , by Jan Luiten van Zanden and Arthur van Riel Understanding the Process of Economic Change , by Douglass C. North Feeding the ...
... century later, anthropologist Clifford Geertz declared that culture is “as observable as agriculture.”2 It is observable, no doubt, but what effect does it have? There is a real need to establish the origin, nature, and limits of ...
... centuries without achiev- ing consistent economic growth. More plausible arguments along this particular line refer to innovations in church pol- icy and institutions during the Middle Ages. They rely on the effects of historically ...
... centuries at once . When I visit my father's home , I still kiss his feet . " 8 An integrated world economy requires large - scale international labor mobility . Fortunately , modern technologies mean that going home is easier than ever ...
... century. This is essentially a substantivist opinion. Those economists who are still aware of the dispute in the 1960s between formalism and substantivism assume that it was decided in favor of formalism, whereas nonecon- omists believe ...
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9780691117379_3CH2 | 31 |
9780691117379_4CH3 | 52 |
9780691117379_5CH4 | 85 |
9780691117379_6CH5 | 108 |
9780691117379_7CH6 | 133 |
9780691117379_8CH7 | 161 |
9780691117379_9CH8 | 194 |
9780691117379_10CH9 | 223 |
9780691117379_11CON | 253 |
9780691117379_12BIB | 273 |
9780691117379_13IND | 291 |
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