’s conjecture that today marked differences in social capital between the North and South of Italy were due to the culture of …

This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The … effect of culture from the original economic and institutional environment. This approach has been used to study a variety of …

. How do culture and institutions interact in generating different evolutionary trajectories of societal organizations? Do …

model explains the economic origins of culture. It was no accident that the intricate steps of tango emerged in the shabby …

Economists have been reluctant to rely on culture as a possible determinant of economic phenomena. The notion of … culture is so broad and the channels through which it can enter the economic discourse so vague that it is difficult to design … testable hypotheses. In this paper we show this does need to be the case. We introduce a narrower definition of culture that …