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La cultura como factor condicionante e inercial del desarrollo económico

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  • Castañeda, Gonzalo

    (Universidad de las Américas-Puebla)

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This paper analyzes economic development through a co-evolutionary process where formal institutions linked to the rule of law are transformed jointly with cultural values. This type of dynamic makes possible to attain multiple equilibriums and, hence, economic backwardness is explained by the presence of an “opportunistic” culture that coexists in an environment where illegality prevails. By means of an evolutionary game theory model, it is shown that a low income per-capita scenario is very difficult to eradicate. This is the case because of the existence of a cultural inertia generated by the co-evolution itself, and because of the relevance that remote factors (sociocultural and geographical) have on determining the probability that the economy can move following certain growth path.// El artículo analiza el desarrollo económico mediante un proceso coevolutivo, en el que instituciones formales vinculadas al estado de derecho se transforman a la par de valores culturales. A partir de este proceso se abre la posibilidad de equilibrios múltiples y, por ende, se explica el atraso económico por la presencia de una cultura “oportunista” que se desenvuelve en un entorno de ilegalidad. Por medio de un modelo de teoría de juegos evolutivos se muestra que un panorama de bajo ingreso per capita resulta muy difícil de erradicar, tanto por la existencia de la inercia cultural propia de la coevolución como por la relevancia que tienen factores remotos (geográficos y socioculturales) en la probabilidad de que la economía haya tomado una determinada senda de crecimiento.

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  • Castañeda, Gonzalo, 2006. "La cultura como factor condicionante e inercial del desarrollo económico," El Trimestre Económico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, vol. 0(289), pages 25-66, enero-mar.
  • Handle: RePEc:elt:journl:v:73:y:2006:i:289:p:25-66
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20430/ete.v73i289.552
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    Keywords

    cultura; desarrollo económico; teoría de juegos evolutivos; coevolución; trayectoria de dependencia;
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    JEL classification:

    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
    • P14 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Property Rights

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