Review of "Cultures Merging" by Eric Jones

Schlicht, Ekkehart (2016): Review of "Cultures Merging" by Eric Jones. Münchener Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Beiträge (VWL) 2016-16

Abstract

This is an electronic reprint of a review of the book "Cultures Merging: A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture" by Eric L. Jones, Princeton: Princeton University Press that appeared in the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 2007, vol. 163, issue 3, pages 526-529, URL \url{http://www.jstor.org/stable/40752660}.

• Dokumententyp: Paper
• Publikationsform: Postprint
• Keywords: Long-term economic growth, growth culture, culture and economics, cultural fixity, cultural nullity, cultural reciprocity, industrialization, protestantism, Konfucianism, A13, N10, N13, N15
• Fakultät: Volkswirtschaft ; Volkswirtschaft > Munich Discussion Papers in Economics ; Volkswirtschaft > Munich Discussion Papers in Economics > Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft ; 900 Geschichte und Geografie > 940 Geschichte Europas ; 900 Geschichte und Geografie > 950 Geschichte Asiens
• Sprache: Englisch

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