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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... Cultures merging : a historical and economic critique of culture / Eric L. Jones . p . cm . — ( Princeton economic history of the Western world ) Contents Preface vii PARTI CULTURAL ANALYSIS 1. The Revival of. Includes bibliographical ...
... CULTURAL COMMENTARY 6. Cultures of Immigration 135 7. East Asia's Experience 161 8. Economic Changes, Cultural Responses 9. Cultural Protection 194 223 PART III CONCLUSION 10. Culture as Reciprocity 255 Bibliography 273 Index 291 ...
... culture's influence. References to cultural phenomena are so matter-of- fact and culture is taken as so obviously fundamental to so- cial life that this alone would seem to ensure its relevance. The importance of cultures is plain to ...
... cultural life. How far or in what sense may it be true that cul- ture underpins world history and the global economy? Are differences among cultures unbridgeable in principle? And to what extent is culture used as an excuse for ...
... culture makes only a ghostly transit through history and has far less independent effect than many noneconomists propose, it does in some measure color behavior, sway choices, and influence decisions. Culture is like class: it has no ...
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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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