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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w28488 |
来源ID | Working Paper 28488 |
Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence | |
Alberto Bisin; Jared Rubin; Avner Seror; Thierry Verdier | |
发表日期 | 2021-02-22 |
出版年 | 2021 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the cultural values that complement the prevailing institutions. As a result, they miss the role of cultural values in either supporting the persistence of or inducing change in the economic and institutional environment. In this paper, we address these issues by modeling the joint evolution of institutions and culture. In doing so, we place the various hypotheses of economic divergence into one, unifying framework. We highlight the role that cultural transmission plays in reinforcing institutional evolution toward either theocratic or secular states. We extend the model to shed light on political decentralization and technological change in the two regions. |
主题 | History ; Labor and Health History ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Innovation and R& ; D ; Other ; Economic Systems |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28488 |
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/586160 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Alberto Bisin,Jared Rubin,Avner Seror,et al. Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence. 2021. |
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