most important 20th-century theorists of radical democracy. We outline Castoriadis's thoughts on autonomy, the social …-historical nature of Being, and creation-key elements that inform his model of democratic culture. We then develop a Castoriadian … critique of culture produced by capitalist institutions. By also drawing on the political economic thought of Thorstein Veblen …

traditionally the household financial managers. This culture was strongly altered by the British in the mid-19th century through …-collected data of 650 individuals from the matrilineal state of Meghalaya, India, and exploring household's distance to the …

This chapter begins by noting that culture as an element in economic development in the Third World has been largely … neglected in traditional development economics, most writers either seeing culture as an obstacle to development or ignoring it … altogether. Recently a shift in thinking has occurred whereby culture is now more widely seen as being more central to the …