1. Introduction -- 2. A history of thought about culture and economy -- 3. The re-emergence of culture in economics -- 4. Methods and methodology of culture and economics -- 5. Culture and cross-country differences in institutions -- 6. Culture and economic performance -- 7. Religion as culture...

This paper reviews the recent literature on economics and culture to investigate whether and how it considers the context. It first describes how culture reentered the economic literature from 1990s onwards. It then presents empirical studies on the relation between culture, institutions and...

With the Maastricht treaty, the members of the Eurozone agreed on the establishment of a very independent European Central Bank, as well as making their National Central Banks far more independent. However, over the years French political leaders systematically brought forward proposals...