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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... Society : The French Countryside , 1450-1815 , by Philip T. Hoffman The Vanishing Irish : Households , Migration , and the Rural Economy in Ireland , 1850-1914 , by Timothy W. Guinnane Black '47 and Beyond : The Great Irish Famine in ...
... society. Early influences are vital. By and large, later in- fluences have less effect and may even be resisted or rejected. In other words not every shift in relative prices elicits the flu- ent response that economists are trained to ...
... societies studied.4 This surely means that deeper human propensities than culture drive behavior (nor does the finding as reported seem to invalidate the pos- sibility that maximizing behavior may still explain more be- havioral ...
... society (or indeed the society of one's choice) is so spe- cial that it can be treated only in its own terms. Yet during the last decade or so, as is observed by Dipankar Gupta, a so- ciologist at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi ...
... society, that is a weakness on their part, not on the part of the science. In the substantivist canon a specific type of economy is. 7 The locus classicus of this dispute was the even earlier exchange between the economist Frank Knight ...
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9780691117379_11CON | 253 |
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