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by culture and social norms by examining their saving and bequest behavior. To summarize our main findings, we find that … the Japanese are not a saving-loving people and that their saving behavior is not governed by culture and social norms …, we argue that these findings do not necessarily mean that culture and social norms do not matter. …
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civil servants. In this paper we consider how political culture is important for determining policy and how interest groups …
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How might we model the historical processes which transported Mozart's compositions in eighteenth century Vienna to their performance in twentieth century Japan? There is a need to look beyond the neo-classical economics tradition. A description is given of how cultural taste gives direction to...
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This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...
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arts and culture, and when corporate philanthropy emerged in the 1950s it was also often aimed at the arts and culture. The … grants to the arts and culture; and the rising number of community and family foundations. American philanthropy is … historical tradition and legal framework has given rise to different forms of support for the arts and culture, with a greater …
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