The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of
proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in …

The economic literature analyses cultural transmission as the result of interactions between
purposeful socialization decisions inside the family ('direct vertical socialization') and indirect …

V irtues are generic benchmarks to help us navigate in the debates on what is good and
bad, right and wrong, and who are them and us. They have always played a role in politics …

Многие экономисты сегодня соглашаются, что неформальные институты и культура
оказывают критически важное влияние на результаты экономической деятельности …

This paper presents a survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on cultural
transmission and socialization. It has been prepared for the Handbook of Social Economics …

Economic activity taking place within the informal sector—traditionally defined as activity
unregulated by law but governed by custom or personal ties—represents an emerging …

We study a cross section of 54 European regions. The central question is whether regional
differences in economic growth are related to social capital, in the form of generalized trust …

Explanations of economic growth and prosperity commonly identify a unique causal effect,
eg, institutions, culture, human capital, geography. In this paper we provide instead a …

Many economists now accept that informal institutions and culture play a crucial role in
economic outcomes. Driven by the work of economists like Nobel laureates Douglass North …

One of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given
certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good …