Culture, Social Norms and Economics

国际图书馆的评论家al Writings in Economics series

Edited by Mark Casson, Professor of Economics and Director, Centre for Institutions and Economic History, University of Reading, UK

Economists have often been accused of failing to take full account of culture and social norms in their explanations of human behaviour. Cultural factors are playing an increasingly important role in economic theorizing and are achieving greater recognition as determinants of economic performance. As such these volumes will be a landmark and will provide easy access to the most important articles in this expanding field.

‘The two volumes are a welcome source for all interested in the rather successful but somewhat limited and sometimes problematic rational choice approach usually applied by economists (and since some time also by political scientists, sociologists and legal scholars). The reader will find many until now widely dispersed articles, which not only address the application of this method to other subjects than the market economy, but also its shortcomings, and which try to rectify them by widening or transforming it. Thus the two volumes can be strongly recommended. . .’
– Peter Bernholz, Kyklos