Understanding the Culture of Markets

ISBN-13: 9780415777469 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 168 str.

Virgil Storr

Opis

How does culture impact economic life? Is culture like a ball and chain that actors must lug around as they pursue their material interests? Or, is culture like a tool-kit from which entrepreneurs can draw resources to aid them in their efforts? This book explores these questions and more.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Introduction  2. Economists Should Study Culture  3. But, Economists Often Misunderstand the Relationship Between Culture and Markets  4. Economists Ought to Be Looking at the Spirits Which Animate Markets  5. This Does Not Mean That Economists Have to Abandon Economics Epilogue

O autorze

Virgil Henry Storr is a Senior Research Fellow and the Director of Graduate Student Programs at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University, USA. He is also a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at George Mason University.