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Modelling Bourdieu : an extension of the Axelrod cultural diffusion model
Trigg, Andrew B. (contributor);  … - 2008
provide an insight into how cultural capital is distributed. -- Bourdieu ; habitus ; cultural capital ; Axelrod ; inequality … developed by extending Axelrod's cultural diffusion model. Bourdieu's theory is decomposed into two components: a capital effect …The contribution to the social theory of consumption of the late Pierre Bourdieu has been widely recognized, but not …
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Chapter 9. New Technologies and Cultural Consumption
Potts, Jason - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 2, (pp. 215-231). 2014
New technologies affect cultural consumption in several ways. Technological change lowers the cost of cultural consumption, inducing substitution and/or increasing demand, in both cases increasing consumer welfare. Technological change can also impact dynamically, inducing increased variety...
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Are intellectual property rights fair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)...
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Tony Atkinson and his legacy
Brandolini, Andrea; Jenkins, Stephen; Micklewright, John - 2017
Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …
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Embedded Culture as a Source of Comparative Advantage
Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper examines how the concept of embedded culture played a transformative role in the ongoing cultural revolution within economics and business. We trace the field's shift from the 20th-century concept of homo economicus universalis to an approach incorporating cultural embeddedness in...
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Chapter 2 Art and Culture in the History of Economic Thought
Goodwin, Craufurd - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 25-68). 2006
Attention to art and culture goes far back in the history of economic thought. In the seventeenth century those activities were viewed suspiciously as likely to be either wasteful extravagances of the aristocracy, or dangerous distractions for the working classes. Eighteenth century economic...
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Introduction to Mark Blaug - Rebel with Many Causes
Boumans, Marcel J. - 2013
The first edition of Mark's Economic Theory in Retrospect (1962) includes a chapter on methodology, ‘A Methodological Postscript,' which starts with four big epistemological and methodological questions: ‘What do economists know? How much does economics explain? What are the principles upon...
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Culture in Historical Political Economy
Lowes, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Culture - the set of socially transmitted values and beliefs held by individuals - has important implications for a wide variety of economic outcomes. Both the causes and consequences of culture have been the subject of work in Historical Political Economy. I first outline several theories on...
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Is There Such a Thing as Middle Class Values? : Class Differences, Values and Political Orientations in Latin America
López-Calva, Luis F. - 2012
Middle class values have long been perceived as drivers of social cohesion and growth. In this paper we investigate the relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using comparable values surveys for six Latin American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110338
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Is There Such Thing as Middle Class Values? Class Differences, Values and Political Orientations in Latin America
López-Calva, Luis F. - 2012
Middle class values have long been perceived as drivers of social cohesion and growth. In this paper we investigate the relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using comparable values surveys for six Latin American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111185