WEEK 6: How does culture influence economic performance?

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TUESDAY (10/9)
IN CLASS:

What do we mean by culture? (Lawson)

THURSDAY (10/11)
IN CLASS:

Social capital and economic development (Lawson)

READINGS FOR WEEK 6
  • Thomas Sowell, Migrations and Cultures: A World View: 1-19, 101-104, 227-233, 306-308, 367-388.

  • Stephen Knack and Philip Keefer, "Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation," Quartery Journal of Economics (November 1997): 1251-1288.

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Research paper topic and bibliography due

 

Top: German immigrants boarding a ship headed for America.

Bottom: A small Amish farming community. Photograph courtesy of Ron Wilson Photography.

 

 

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