Cultural Endowments and Economic Development: What Can We Learn from Anthropology?

Ruttan, V.W. (1986) Cultural Endowments and Economic Development: What Can We Learn from Anthropology? Working Paper. University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA.

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Abstract

In research conducted over the last decade and a half, Yujiro Hayami and I have outlined a model of economic development in which both technical and institutional change were treated as largely endogenous to the economic system.1 Technical change is treated as induced by changes in factor supplies and product demand and by institutional change. Institutional change is treated as induced by changes in factor supplies and product demand and by technical change. Advances in natural science knowledge reduce the cost of technical change and advances in social science knowledge reduce the cost of institutional change...

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Author Affiliation: University of Minnesota
Subjects: Social Sciences > Agricultural Economics
Divisions: Other Crops
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Depositing User: Ms K Syamalamba
Date Deposited: 27 Nov 2013 06:08
Last Modified: 27 Nov 2013 06:08
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/12205

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