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Review of "Cultures Merging" by Eric Jones

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This is an electronic reprint of a review of the book "Cultures Merging: A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture" by Eric L. Jones, Princeton: Princeton University Press that appeared in the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 2007, vol. 163, issue 3, pages 526-529, URL \url{http://www.jstor.org/stable/40752660}.

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  • Schlicht, Ekkehart, 2016. "Review of "Cultures Merging" by Eric Jones," Discussion Papers in Economics 29964, University of Munich, Department of Economics.
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    Long-term economic growth; growth culture; culture and economics; cultural fixity; cultural nullity; cultural reciprocity; industrialization; protestantism; Konfucianism;
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