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Cultural Endowments and Economic Development: What Can We Learn from Anthropology?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Ruttan, Vernon W. |
| Copyright Year | 1986 |
| Abstract | This article discusses a pattern model used to map the general equilibrium relationship relationship between resource endowments cultural endowments technology and institutions. One advantage of the pattern model is that helps to identify areas of ignorance. Our capacity to model and test the relations between resource endowments and technical change is relatively strong. Our capacity to model and test the relations between cultural endowments and either technical or institutional change is relatively weak. A second advantage of the model is that it is useful in identifying the components that enter into other attempts to account for secular economic and social change. Failure to analyze historical change in a general equilibrium context tends to result in a unidimensional perspective on the relations bearing on technical and institutional change. For example historians working within the Marxist tradition often tend to view technical change as dominating both institutional and cultural change. Cultural endowments including religion and ideology exert at least some influence on the supply of institutional innovation. Cultural endowments make some forms of institutional change less costly to establish and impose severe costs on others. There are a number of reasons that one might look to the field of anthropology for guidance in attempting to understand the sources and impact of cultural endowments on economic development. One is that anthropology has traditionally embraced a broad conception of culture. Ethnographic research through its examination of alternative culture patterns has made substantial contributions to institutional reform. |
| Starting Page | 247 |
| Ending Page | 271 |
| Page Count | 25 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1086/edcc.36.s3.1566545 |
| Volume Number | 36 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/12205/1/RP-05046.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1086/edcc.36.s3.1566545 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
