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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... tion which assumes that, simply because at any one time we can observe them in full blossom, cultures are tangible and lasting phenomena. Must we therefore swing to the opposite extreme and think that culture is so labile that it has ...
... tion each of them in its place. There are thus constructive as well as evasive reasons for a degree of looseness in definition. Some of the inconclusiveness about culture stems from lumping it with institutions. I am inclined to ...
... Relative Importance of Cultural Similarity and Personal Fit in the Selec- tion and Performance of Expatriates,” Journal of World Business 40 (2005): 1–8. The second exception consists of economists in the tradition of xiii PREFACE.
... tion readily wrought by primitive agriculture long before Eu- ropean colonists hove onto the scene . 10 Lest Sandall's pub- lication seem the work of an isolated contrarian , a wider shift in opinion is indicated by the fact that ...
... tion.15 These practices placed liberals and feminists in a dilemma. They had either to defend them as the cultural rights of immigrants or swing round to condemning them as viola- tions of the rule of the secular state, the autonomy of ...
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9780691117379_11CON | 253 |
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