Culture, entrepreneurship, and growth

M Doepke, F Zilibotti - Handbook of economic growth, 2014 - Elsevier
We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of
endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of …

The culture of entrepreneurship

S Chakraborty, JC Thompson, EB Yehoue - Journal of Economic Theory, 2016 - Elsevier
We study the cultural process through which a society inculcates an entrepreneurial spirit.
People work for a guaranteed wage or operate a firm whose risky return depends on …

The grand experiment of communism: discovering the trade-off between equality and efficiency

E Farvaque, A Mihailov, A Naghavi - Journal of Institutional and Theoretical …, 2018 - JSTOR
This paper examines how the interplay between economic incentives and social
preferences transmitted by ideology plays a role in the rise and fall of communism. We …

Culture and economic growth

JC Thompson - 2015 - search.proquest.com
The most fundamental question in economics is what causes some countries to prosper. An
emerging literature has focused on the role of culture in determining growth. I interpret …

[PDF][PDF] Cultural Transmission and the Pendulum of Economic Systems: The Case of Communism

E Farvaque, A Mihailov, A Naghavi - 2012 - core.ac.uk
This paper aims to explain the rise and fall of communism by exploring the interplay
between economic incentives and social preferences transmitted by ideology. We introduce …