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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... 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 the eyes of.
... influence decisions. Culture is like class: it has no generally accepted, op- erational definition. Insofar as the ... influences are vital. By and large, later in- fluences have less effect and may even be resisted or rejected. In other ...
... influential. It remains a live possibility, nevertheless, that particular mixtures of myths, superstitions, and religions did give rise to different institutions for establishing order and conformity, thereby imposing different levels ...
... influence. Most economists adopt the position I have called elsewhere “cultural nullity.”4 Strictly speaking, this ... influential beliefs and values. A type of nonmarket fundamentalism prevails among sociologists and anthropologists ...
... influences on human affairs. He does so in asides which indicate that however much others may wish to ignore it, he takes the point to be obvious: in- deed, he ends one essay with a quotation from George Or- well to the effect that ...
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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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