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Greif on Jones on Culture

2 August 2006 at 8:31 am Peter G. Klein Leave a comment

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Avner Greif reviews Eric Jones’s Cultures Merging: A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture (Princeton University Press, 2006), for EH.Net:

For some scholars, a society’s culture determines its economic destiny. For others, culture is malleable reflecting deeper political and economic variables and hence is epiphenomenal to economic outcomes. In this interesting book, Eric Jones (author of The European Miracle among other publications, a Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne and an Emeritus Professor at La Trobe) provides a useful survey of this debate and argues for a middle ground.

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