| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP13425
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| DP13425 Folklore |
| Stelios Michalopoulos
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| 发表日期 | 2019-01-03
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Folklore is the collection of traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth. This vast expressive body, studied by the corresponding discipline of folklore, has evaded the attention of economists. In this study we do four things that reveal the tremendous potential of this corpus for understanding comparative development and culture. First, we introduce and describe a unique catalogue of folklore that codes the presence of thousands of motifs for roughly 1,000 pre-industrial societies. Second, we use a dictionary-based approach to elicit group-specific measures of various traits related to the natural environment, institutional framework, and mode of subsistence. We establish that these proxies are in accordance with the ethnographic record, and illustrate how to use a group's oral tradition to quantify non-extant characteristics of preindustrial societies. Third, we use folklore to uncover the historical cultural values of a group. Doing so allows us to test various influential conjectures among social scientists including the original affluent society, the culture of honor among pastoralists, the role of family in extended kinship systems and the intensity of trade and rule-following norms in politically centralized group. Finally, we explore how cultural norms inferred via text analysis of oral traditions predict contemporary attitudes and beliefs. |
| 主题 | Development Economics
; Economic History
; Macroeconomics and Growth
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| 关键词 | Folklore
Culture
Development
Values
History
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp13425-0
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/542240
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推荐引用方式
GB/T 7714 |
Stelios Michalopoulos. DP13425 Folklore. 2019.
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