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Four types of economicsʺ relevant for institutional analysis are distinguished: Standard Neoclassical Economics; Socio-Economics or Social Economics; New Institutional Economics; and Psychological Economics (often misleadingly called Behavioural Economics). The paper argues that an extension of...
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governments of Europe spend substantial resources on culture and cultural sectors contribute significantly to employment and … of culture, valid and invalid arguments for subsidising culture are discussed. Although it is easy to justify government … of E-culture classic public-good arguments for government intervention in broadcasting and other cultural activities …
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Why is modern society capable of cumulative innovation? In A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy, Joel … ethos of modern science. The book is a significant contribution to the growing literature that links culture and economics …. This review discusses Mokyr’s historical analysis in relation to the following questions: What is culture and how should we …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …
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Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...
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provide an explanation of why small countries sometimes exclude certain goods (especially those related to culture) from trade …
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stronger ties to French culture exhibit a more effective transplant even when controlling for institutional proximity. Our …
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We study the interplay between scientific progress and culture through text analysis on a corpus of about eight million … relation between two key factors of long-term economic growth - science and culture. Considering the evolution of these two …
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We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from …
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This paper explores intergenerational transmission of culture and the consequences of a plausible assumption: that … people care not only for their children's culture but also for how their grand-children are raised. This departs from the …
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