Ignoring culture can lead to bad policy, and culturally-based analyses substantially enhance the understanding of economic behavior. However, culture is a collective phenomenon which is so broad that it is hard to design testable hypotheses for research. The primary achievement of Hofstede, a...

"The book Global Nexus: Political Economies, Interconnectivity, and the Social Sciences brings out the contradictions and conflicts within the globalisation exercise; that while it provides opportunities for the poor and unemployed to improve their livelihoods, it encapsulates them in the...