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Culture, institutions, and development : new insights into an old debate /
Does culture matter? This question has taken on added significance since fundamentalist revivalism has recently gained ground in different parts of the world. The old controversy between Max Weber and Karl Marx, which centres around the extent to which cultural factors such as social norms and value...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2011.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in development economics ;
84. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I Overview of issues
- The role of culture in development: An overview
- Culture and development: The continuing tension between modern standards and local contexts
- Culture and development: Do social struggles make a difference?
- Part II Religion, family and ethnicity
- Economic underdevelopment in the Middle East: The historical roles of culture, institutions and religion; Comments on Timur Kuran's chapter
- Family and kinship ties in development: An economist's perspective
- The demand for disadvantage
- Part III Culture and entrepreneurship
- Markets and the diffusion of institutional innovations
- Culture, management and development
- The invention of traditions and entrepreneurship: A critical perspective
- Culture matters for poverty, but not because of a culture of poverty: Notes on analytics and policy
- Comments on Michael Walton's chapter
- Comments on Michael Walton's chapter.