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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... religion in the rise of the West, debate continues. For example, in Understanding the Process of Economic Change,3 Douglass North attributes divergent economic and political performance to different sets of institutions, correctly. 3 ...
... religion distort the rational maxi- mizing behavior on which most reasoning in economics de- pends. He cites ... religions did give rise to different institutions for establishing order and conformity, thereby imposing different levels ...
... religious belief has eroded a coherent worldview, and into the vacuum created by the consequent diminution of personal responsibility has poured collective guilt. He protests that guilt has malign consequences for pol- icy, spawning aid ...
... religion.18 The story is told that when Hillary Clinton was to visit Pakistan, her advisors were informed that the president's wife would be in purdah. “How far. 18 This was noted from time to time, e.g., in James Finn, ed., Global Eco ...
... religion helped to disarm decision makers when it came to understanding, to cite the most obvious example, the Islamic world. Religious values are intrinsic to culture: they are far more important than matters of dress and deportment ...
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9780691117379_13IND | 291 |
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