Culture and economic explanation : economics in the US and Japan
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon [England] ; New York, NY :
Routledge ,
c2008
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| Series: | Routlledge frontiers of political economy
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: culture, economics and economic behavior
- 2. Western economics and the economy of Japan
- 3. "What are the questions"?
- 4. An analytical vision of the workings of the United States economy
- 5. The workings of the Japanese economy
- 6. Explaining the Japanese economic miracle
- 7. The role of optimization in economics
- 8. Economics and the principle of uniformity
- 9. Cultural variation and the theory of the firm
- 10. Culture and the explanation of choice behaviour