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Purpose – The initial purpose of this paper is to review the explanatory power that memetics promised for socio‐cultural evolutionary theory, for organisational adaptation, and emergent patterns of traits. Second, to argue that philosophical accusations and premature demands have retarded a...
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Evidence on Weber's original thesis on a Protestant work ethic is ambiguous and relies on questionable measures of work …
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country. This paper provides the first evidence that the positive effect of importing good institutions cancels out when the … receiving territories are characterized by cultural traits in conflict with those embedded in the imported institutions. We … French institutions in Protestant areas. Then, using hand-collected data on pre-Napoleonic reigns we show that kingdoms with …
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