| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w25429 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 25429 |
| How Does Scientific Progress Affect Cultural Changes? A Digital Text Analysis | |
| Michela Giorcelli; Nicola Lacetera; Astrid Marinoni | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-01-14 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We study the effects of scientific changes on broader cultural discourse, two phenomena that the economics literature identifies as key drivers of long-term growth, focusing on a unique episode in the history of science: the elaboration of the theory of evolution by Charles Darwin. We measure cultural discourse through the digitized text analysis of a corpus of hundreds of thousands of books as well as of Congressional and Parliamentary records for the US and the UK. We find that some concepts in Darwin’s theory, such as Evolution, Survival, Natural Selection and Competition, significantly increased their presence in the public discourse immediately after the publication of On the Origin of Species. Moreover, several words that embedded the key concepts of the theory of evolution experienced semantic and sentiment changes – further channels through which Darwin’s theory influenced the broader discourse. Our findings represent the first large-sample, systematic quantitative evidence of the relation between two key determinants of long-term economic growth, and suggest that natural language processing offers promising tools to explore this relation. |
| 主题 | Other ; History of Economic Thought ; Econometrics ; Estimation Methods ; History ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D ; Culture |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25429 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583103 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Michela Giorcelli,Nicola Lacetera,Astrid Marinoni. How Does Scientific Progress Affect Cultural Changes? A Digital Text Analysis. 2019. |
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