David C Rose

Why Culture Matters Most

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explains why culture - not genes, geography, institutions, or policies - is the key to achieving mass flourishing. Culture therefore best explains the differential success of societies. Unlike anything else, culture overcomes the most fundamental obstacle to having a thriving free market democracy: rational self-interest undermining the common good.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 146mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 355g
• ISBN-13: 9780199330720
• ISBN-10: 0199330727
• Artikelnr.: 53019342

Autorenporträt

David C. Rose is Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia. He has published scholarly articles on a wide range of topics in economics, including behavioral economics, economic ethics, the theory of cooperation, and the theory of the firm. He has also published in the popular press on a wide variety of policy issues. He has also published an Oxford University Press book titled The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. The Cultural Commons
3. Culture as Moral Beliefs
4. Culture as Instrument
5. The Rise of Flourishing Societies
6. The Free Market Democracy Dilemma
7. The Fall of Flourishing Societies
8. Family, Religion, Government, and Civilization
9. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index