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Modelling Bordieu: An extension of the Axelrod Cultural Diffusion Model

Trigg, Andrew; Bertie, Andrew J.; Himmelweit, Sue - Department of Economics, Open University - 2008

developed by extending Axelrod's cultural diffusion model. Bourdieu's theory is decomposed into two components: a capital effect …The contribution to the social theory of consumption of the late Pierre Bourdieu has been widely recognized, but not … fully absorbed by the economics discipline. To address this lacuna, an agent-based model of Bourdieu's social theory is …

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Modelling Bourdieu : an extension of the Axelrod cultural diffusion model

Trigg, Andrew B. (contributor); … - 2008

provide an insight into how cultural capital is distributed. -- Bourdieu ; habitus ; cultural capital ; Axelrod ; inequality … developed by extending Axelrod's cultural diffusion model. Bourdieu's theory is decomposed into two components: a capital effect …The contribution to the social theory of consumption of the late Pierre Bourdieu has been widely recognized, but not …

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Cultural Goods Production, Cultural Capital Formation and the Provision of Cultural Services

Cheng, Sao-Wen - 2005

Cultural capital is assumed to benefit all members of society. It is accumulated through the consumption of cultural services and is diminished through depreciation. Using the stock of cultural goods, cultural services are provided by the cultural services industry; the stock of cultural goods...

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Chapter 9. New Technologies and Cultural Consumption

Potts, Jason - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 2, (pp. 215-231). 2014

New technologies affect cultural consumption in several ways. Technological change lowers the cost of cultural consumption, inducing substitution and/or increasing demand, in both cases increasing consumer welfare. Technological change can also impact dynamically, inducing increased variety...

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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)...

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Are intellectual property rights fair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

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Tony Atkinson and his legacy

Brandolini, Andrea; Jenkins, Stephen; Micklewright, John - 2017

Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …

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Embedded Culture as a Source of Comparative Advantage

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper examines how the concept of embedded culture played a transformative role in the ongoing cultural revolution within economics and business. We trace the field's shift from the 20th-century concept of homo economicus universalis to an approach incorporating cultural embeddedness in...

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Chapter 2 Art and Culture in the History of Economic Thought

Goodwin, Craufurd - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 25-68). 2006

Attention to art and culture goes far back in the history of economic thought. In the seventeenth century those activities were viewed suspiciously as likely to be either wasteful extravagances of the aristocracy, or dangerous distractions for the working classes. Eighteenth century economic...

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Introduction to Mark Blaug - Rebel with Many Causes

Boumans, Marcel J. - 2013

The first edition of Mark's Economic Theory in Retrospect (1962) includes a chapter on methodology, ‘A Methodological Postscript,' which starts with four big epistemological and methodological questions: ‘What do economists know? How much does economics explain? What are the principles upon...

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