WEEK 6: How does culture influence economic performance?

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. Web Links: Thomas Sowell, Hoover Institution 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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