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Cultures merging : a historical and economic critique of culture /

"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--tak...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jones, E. L. (Eric Lionel)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2006.
Series:Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The revival of cultural explanation
  • Cultures fluid and sticky
  • Culture as mediocrity
  • The means of merging
  • Institutions as cryptogams
  • Cultures of immigration
  • East Asia's experience
  • Economic changes, cultural responses
  • Cultural protection
  • Culture as reciprocity.