Culture in economics : history, methodological reflections, and contemporary applications

Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, and Robbert Maseland.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2011.

"Many economists now accept that informal institutions and culture play a crucial role in economic outcomes. Driven by the work of economists such as Nobel laureates Douglass North and Gary Becker, there is an important body of work that invokes cultural and institutional factors to build a more comprehensive and realistic theory of economic behavior. This book provides a comprehensive overview of research in this area, sketching the main promises and challenges faced by the field. The first part introduces and explains the various theoretical approaches to studying culture in economics, going back to Smith and Weber, and addresses the methodological issues that need to be considered when including culture in economics. The second part of the book then provides readers with a series of examples that shows how the cultural approach can be used to explain economic phenomena in four different areas: entrepreneurship, trust, international business and comparative corporate governance"--

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Bibliographic Information

Format:: Book
Author:: Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd, 1976-
Subject:: Economics > Sociological aspects.; Culture > Economic aspects.
Publication Year:: 2011
Language:: English
Published:: Cambridge
ISBN:: 9780521193009, 0521193001
Course:: GEB214
Cultural Insights for Business Success; SOC321
Economic Sociology
Bibliography:: Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-370) and index.