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Cultures Merging - A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture (Paperback)
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Cultures Merging - A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture (Paperback)
Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
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"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. Culture matters to economic outcomes, Jones argues, but
cultures in turn never stop responding to market forces, even if
some elements of culture stubbornly persist beyond the time when
they can be explained by current economic pressures. In the longer
run, however, cultures show a fluidity that will astonish some
cultural determinists. Jones concludes that culture's "ghostly
transit through history" is much less powerful than noneconomists
often claim, yet it has a greater influence than economists usually
admit. The product of a lifetime of reading and thinking on culture
and economics, a work of history and an analysis of the
contemporary world, Cultures Merging will be essential reading for
anyone concerned about the interaction of cultures and markets
around the world.
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