Eelke De Jong

Culture and Economics

On Values, Economics and International Business

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Covers the history of culture in economics from Adam Smith onwards. This book also covers the way culture is incorporated into economic analysis; methods used in empirical analysis on culture and economics; and, culture as an explanatory factor of cross-country difference in institutions and performance.

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The aim of this book is to embed the `new culturalism¿ theoretically and relate it to longer-standing debates about culture and/or economy. The result is the first significant text book to explore the interrelationship between culture and economics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780415438612
• ISBN-10: 0415438616
• Artikelnr.: 26606905

Autorenporträt

Eelke de Jong is Professor of International Economics at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Chapter 2 A history of thought about culture and
economy: Chapter 3 The re-emergence of culture in economics: Chapter 4
Methods and methodology of culture and economics: Chapter 5 Culture and
cross-country differences in institutions: Chapter 6 Culture and economic
performance: Chapter 7 Religion as culture: Chapter 8 Mapping the landscape
of social capital: the need for a two-level approach: Chapter 9
International relations and coordination; Chapter 10 Conclusions and
recommendations