Unintended consequences : the impact of factor endowments, culture, and politics on long-run economic performance
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Unintended consequences : the impact of factor endowments, culture, and politics on long-run economic performance
（The Ohlin lectures, 7）
MIT Press, c1998
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"The Ohlin Memorial Lectures 1995, delivered at the Stockholm School of Economics, 30th and 31st Oct. 1995."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-275) and index
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: hc ISBN 9780262122108
内容説明
In this book, based on the 1995 Ohlin Lectures, Deepak Lal provides an accessible, interdisciplinary account of the role of culture in shaping economic performance. Topics addressed include a possible future "clash of civilizations," the role of Asian values in the East Asian economic miracle, the cultural versus economic causes of social decay in the West, and whether modernization leads to Westernization. Lal makes an important distinction between material and cosmological beliefs, showing how both were initially shaped by factor endowments and how they have evolved in response to changing historical pressures in different civilizations. Lal's first major theme is the interaction of factor endowments, culture, and politics in explaining modern intensive growth in the West. The other major theme is the role of individualism--an inadvertent legacy of the medieval Catholic Church--in promoting this growth, and the strange metamorphoses this has caused in both the West's cosmological beliefs and the interaction between "the West and the rest." Lal takes account of the relevant literature in history, anthropology, social psychology, evolutionary biology, neurology, and sociology, and the economic history of the regions and cultures that form Eurasia. An appendix shows how the stories Lal tells can be described by four formal economic models.
目次
- Part 1 On culture: social equilibria
- nature and nurture
- different social equilibria
- individualism and communalism
- the emotions - shame and guilt
- the anthropological record
- cosmology, polity, economy. Part 2 The ancient civilizations 1 - Egypt, Mesopotamia, Judea: Smithian and Promethean growth
- agriculture, civilization and nomads
- the ancient near east. Part 3 The ancient civilizations 2 - India and China: India
- China. Part 4 Islam and the rise of the Arabs
- Muslim conquest and retreat
- material factors
- cosmological beliefs
- the polity
- law, society, economy
- the closing of the Muslim mind
- Islam and the economy. Part 5 The rise of the west: the materialist base
- the institutional base
- the rise of Christian Europe and individualism
- the nuclear family and the rise of the west
- love, sex, sin and guilt
- the Greek orthodox church and Russia. Part 6 The course of individualism: the course of Augustine's "City of God"
- the rise and fall and rise of economic liberalism
- the present situation. Part 7 India and China in modern times: dirigisme
- reform
- future. Part 8 The Far East: the East Asian "miracle" economies
- Japan. Part 9 The West and the rest: manners, shame and guilt
- the welfare state. Part 10 Conclusions: appendix
- the Boserup process
- the model of the predatory state
- dual preferences and changes in public opinion
- factor proportions and agrarian structure.
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: pb ISBN 9780262621540
内容説明
In this book, based on the 1995 Ohlin Lectures, Deepak Lal provides an accessible, interdisciplinary account of the role of culture in shaping economic performance. Topics addressed include a possible future "clash of civilizations," the role of Asian values in the East Asian economic miracle, the cultural versus economic causes of social decay in the West, and whether modernization leads to Westernization. Lal makes an important distinction between material and cosmological beliefs, showing how both were initially shaped by factor endowments and how they have evolved in response to changing historical pressures in different civilizations. Lal's first major theme is the interaction of factor endowments, culture, and politics in explaining modern intensive growth in the West. The other major theme is the role of individualism-an inadvertent legacy of the medieval Catholic Church-in promoting this growth, and the strange metamorphoses this has caused in both the West's cosmological beliefs and the interaction between "the West and the rest." Lal takes account of the relevant literature in history, anthropology, social psychology, evolutionary biology, neurology, and sociology, and the economic history of the regions and cultures that form Eurasia. An appendix shows how the stories Lal tells can be described by four formal economic models.
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