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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... relativism, are beginning to renew their interest in cultural explanation. This may be the point at which to state that, notwith- standing the abstract musings above, it is none of my purpose to engage in academic combat with high-flown ...
... cultural difference is a form of relativism which disrupts the universal character of analy- sis.8 The burden of substantivism is that each culture maxi- mizes its own values and therefore cannot be analyzed by the modes of economics ...
... cultures with the international economy ( globalization ) is wrong , and any hint that each culture may not be distinct is “ racist , ” a term which is too often used as mere abuse . This syndrome amounts to cultural relativism in ...
... Cultural relativism takes little account of its own eco- nomic implications — the costs that ensue ( and fall most heavily on the poor ) from insisting on cultural separateness and hence segregated markets . Cultural relativism is thus ...
... cultural relativism but near its close he moved toward acknowledging the impor- tance of culture by criticizing his fellow economists for vir- tually failing to consider the subject at all. I take From Sub- sistence to Exchange and ...
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9780691117379_11CON | 253 |
9780691117379_12BIB | 273 |
9780691117379_13IND | 291 |
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