Culture and economic explanation : economics in the US and Japan /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Katzner, Donald W., 1938-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Series:Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 98.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : culture, economics, and economic behavior
  • Western economics and the economy of Japan
  • "What are the questions"?
  • An analytical vision of the workings of the United States economy
  • The workings of the Japanese economy
  • Explaining the Japanese economic miracle
  • The role of optimization in economics
  • Economics and the principle of uniformity
  • Cultural variation and the theory of the firm
  • Culture and the explanation of choice behavior.