2012 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Understanding the Individualism-Collectivism Cleavage and Its Effects: Lessons from Cultural Psychology
verfasst von : Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Gérard Roland
Erschienen in: Institutions and Comparative Economic Development
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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The central role of culture on economic development has been recognized at least since Max Weber who, in his classic work ‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’, argued that the protestant ethic of Calvinism was a very powerful force behind the development of capitalism in its early phases. Recently economic historians such as Landes (1998) and Mokyr (2010) have emphasized the crucial role of culture in explaining the industrial revolution.