Review of "Cultures Merging" by Eric Jones

Schlicht, Ekkehart (2016): Review of "Cultures Merging" by Eric Jones. Discussion Papers in Economics 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}.

• Item Type: Paper
• Form of publication: Postprint
• Keywords: Long-term economic growth, growth culture, culture and economics, cultural fixity, cultural nullity, cultural reciprocity, industrialization, protestantism, Konfucianism, A13, N10, N13, N15
• Faculties: Economics; Economics > Munich Discussion Papers in Economics; Economics > Munich Discussion Papers in Economics > Economic History
• Subjects: 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics; 900 History and geography > 940 History of Europe; 900 History and geography > 950 History of Asia
• Language: English

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