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Anthropology and Economic Imperialism: The Battlefield of Culture
Chuah, Swee Hoon - Business School, University of Nottingham - 2003
The concept of culture is traditionally the home turf of anthropologists. However, economists have become increasingly interested in culture, using the language of culture to study both macro- and micro-level economic phenomena. Anthropologists view this as an encroachment into their territory...
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Anthropology and Economic Imperialism: The Battlefield of Culture
Chuah, Swee-Hoon - Economics and Finance Division, Business School - 2003
The concept of culture is traditionally the home turf of anthropologists. However, economists have become increasingly interested in culture, using the language of culture to study both macro- and micro-level economic phenomena. Anthropologists view this as an encroachment into their territory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558775
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Schütz on Meaning and Culture
Storr, Virgil Henry - 2010
The hermeneutical Austrians wanted to provide (1) a philosophically sound justification for the contention that praxeology is a science of meaning and (2) justification for an approach to empirical/historical work that favors ethnographic methods. This article argues that had the hermeneutical...
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Culture, money attitudes and economic outcomes
Henchoz, Caroline; Coste, Tristan; Wernli, Boris - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 155 (2019) 2, pp. 1-13
Using novel survey data, we examine attitudes towards money and to what extent they affect economic outcomes in … Switzerland. We find that three main types of attitudes towards money co-exist: the prestige and power attitude, the money … Switzerland. Attitudes towards money shape financial behaviour, but the relationship varies depending on the type of financial …
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Economics and Culture: Is the Context Considered?
de Jong, Eelke - In: Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch 141 (2021) 1-2, pp. 3-24
This paper reviews the recent literature on economics and culture to investigate whether and how it considers the context. It first describes how culture reentered the economic literature from 1990s onwards. It then presents empirical studies on the relation between culture, institutions and...
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Cultural Species and Institutional Change in China
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - 2013
This paper attempts to give a comprehensive account of the cultural embeddedness of the contemporary Chinese economy. Although culture has been revived as a category in economics recently, there is still no methodological basis in the cultural sciences properly speaking. I confront "rule...
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A Critical Approach to Hofstede’s Model on Cultural Dimensions
Catalin, Ploae - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XII (2012) 1, pp. 644-649
Hofstede’s model on cultural dimensions to explain cultural difference has been widely used for exploring different aspects of culture, from management to educational settings. Based on his research from the beginning of 1970, Geert Hofstede created a new paradigm for the study of cultural...
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The right amount of trust
Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2010
We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs. Heterogeneity of trust beliefs in the population, coupled with the tendency of individuals to extrapolate...
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The Economy in Context: A Value-Based Approach
Klamer, Arjo - In: Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch 140 (2020) 3-4, pp. 287-300
A more comprehensive picture, or imaginary in Charles Taylor's term, puts the spheres of market and organizations in a broader perspective. It calls for new concepts – like shared and common goods or practices – and the willingness to contribute. We see that culture, in the sense of...
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Factors Influencing men’s choice for Eastern Wear
Hasan, Syed Akif; Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz; Osman, Ms. Amber - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Culture is pivotal in shaping the behavior of an individual. Clothing is one way looking at the culture of one and this research in specific investigates about eastern clothing of men. The origin comes from South Asia i.e. Pakistan. The preference of eastern wear by the male segment has changed...
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