TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,E.L.
TI  - Cultures merging: a historical and economic critique of culture 
T2  - The Princeton economic history of the Western world
SN  - 9781400827114
AV  - HM548 .J66 2006
U1  - 306.301 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Economics
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Culture
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Social change
KW  - Économie politique
KW  - Aspect sociologique
KW  - Aspect économique
KW  - Changement social
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Economic Conditions
KW  - fast
KW  - Economische ontwikkeling
KW  - gtt
KW  - Cultuur
KW  - Sociology & Social History
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Social Change
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-290) and index; The revival of cultural explanation -- Cultures fluid and sticky -- Culture as mediocrity -- The means of merging -- Institutions as cryptogams -- Cultures of immigration -- East Asia's experience -- Economic changes, cultural responses -- Cultural protection -- Culture as reciprocity
N2  - "Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic historians--takes an eloquent, pointed, and personal look at the question of whether culture determines economics or is instead determined by it. Bringing immense learning and originality to the issue of cultural change over the long-term course of global economic history, Jones questions cultural explanations of much social behavior in Europe, East Asia, the United States, Australia, and the Middle East. He also examines contemporary globalization, arguing that while centuries of economic competition have resulted in the merging of cultures into fewer and larger units, these changes have led to exciting new syntheses. --From publisher's description
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