Donald W. Katzner

Culture and Economic Explanation (eBook, PDF)

Economics in the US and Japan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

There is a common view among many economists that one model is capable of explaining a specific type of behaviour in all cultural environments. It is only necessary to make appropriate adjustments to bring the model in line with prevailing cultural conditions. This book argues that such an approach can lead to error, in particular to incorrect explanation and understanding of the phenomenon in question, and therefore may result in inappropriate policy recommendations.

Katzner's fascinating book compares the two cultures of Japan and USA and provides insights into the economic workings and differences between the two nations. He shows that an understanding of the culture of a country is essential to the development of appropriate models of economic behaviour of economic agents in that country, and that the failure to understand cultural differences weakens the predictive (and prescriptive) power of economic models. The argument is made in a collection of essays supporting the following: (a) Thought processes are heavily dependent on cultural environments and (b) Because cultures vary widely from society to society, to explain economic behaviour in one society may require a model with a completely different structure from that in another. The book applies this argument to elucidate certain features of economic theorizing and to explain the so-called Japanese economic miracle.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135974848
• Artikelnr.: 42983037

Autorenporträt

Donald W. Katzner is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts / Amherst, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Culture, Economics and Economic Behavior 2. Western
Economics and the Economy of Japan 3. 'What are the Questions?' 4. An
Analytical Vision of the Workings of the United States Economy 5. The
Workings of the Japanese Economy 6. Explaining the Japanese Economic
Miracle 7. The Role of Optimization in Economics 8. Economics and the
Principle of Uniformity 9. Cultural Variation and the Theory of the Firm
10. Culture and the Explanation of Choice Behaviour