Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought."" So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic historians--takes an...

Main description: "Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic...

This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to analyze the connections between some dimensions of...