, giving particular attention to the effects of culture on economic phenomena and the ways that economic actions are embedded … to politics, law, culture, and gender. Swedberg notes that sociologists too often fail to properly emphasize the role …

Several types of arguments advocate state involvement in the promotion of culture. Many of them imply some sort of … excise taxation on culture only as a way to redistribute income. However, to the extent that culture is a public good, taxing …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …