Culture, Social Norms And Economics

Mark Casson

Edited by Mark Casson, Professor of Economics, University of Reading, UK

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Series: The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series






Description
‘The two volumes are a welcome source for all interested in the rather successful but somewhat limited and sometimes problematic rational choice approach usually applied by economists (and since some time also by political scientists, sociologists and legal scholars). The reader will find many until now widely dispersed articles, which not only address the application of this method to other subjects than the market economy, but also its shortcomings, and which try to rectify them by widening or transforming it. Thus the two volumes can be strongly recommended. . .’
– Peter Bernholz, Kyklos

Economists have often been accused of failing to take full account of culture and social norms in their explanations of human behaviour. Cultural factors are playing an increasingly important role in economic theorizing and are achieving greater recognition as determinants of economic performance. As such these volumes will be a landmark and will provide easy access to the most important articles in this expanding field.

Contents
54 articles, dating from 1907 to 1995 Contents: Volume I: Economic Behaviour Part I: Introduction Part II: Altruism, Envy and Interdependent References Part III: Social Aspects of Preferences: Rank and Status Part IV: Passions and Self-Control • Volume II: Economic Perfornance Part I: Co-operation Part II: Social Order Without Law Part III: Leadership and Peer Pressure Part IV: Religion and the Nature of Belief Part V: Entrepreneurial Culture Part VI: National Culture and Economic Perfornance Name Index Contributors include: G. Akerlof, J. Buchanan, R. Ekelund, R. Frank, F. Knight