Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Factor Endowments, Culture, and Politics on Long-Run Economic Performance

摘要: In this book, based on the 1995 Ohlin Lectures, Deepak Lal provides an accessible, interdisciplinary account of role culture in shaping economic performance. Topics addressed include a possible future "clash civilizations," Asian values East miracle, cultural versus causes social decay West, and whether modernization leads to Westernization. makes important distinction between material cosmological beliefs, showing how both were initially shaped by factor endowments they have evolved response changing historical pressures different civilizations.Lal's first major theme is interaction endowments, culture, politics explaining modern intensive growth West. The other individualism--an inadvertent legacy medieval Catholic Church--in promoting growth, strange metamorphoses has caused West's beliefs "the West rest." takes relevant literature history, anthropology, psychology, evolutionary biology, neurology, sociology, history regions cultures that form Eurasia. An appendix shows stories tells can be described four formal models.