Cultural Materialism and Institutional Economics

Artikel

Economics and culture have usually been kept apart in academic discussion. The resulting division is damaging to economics, since important cultural questions such as the formation of preferences, the influence of ideology and the relation between the individual and society are systematically neglected. Outside economics, however, anthropologists and literary theorists have formulated a 'cultural materialism' that seeks to reintegrate culture with the material world. This paper argues that the cultural materialist perspective has strong affinities with institutional economics and can provide a framework for a more culturally sensitive approach to economic theorising.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Review of Social Economy ; ISSN: 1470-1162 ; Volume: 54 ; Year: 1996 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 221-244 ; London: Routledge

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines ; Economic Methodology ; Current Heterodox Approaches: Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary ; Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General
• Subject: culture ; materialism ; anthropology ; literary theory ; institutional economics ; scientific realism

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Jackson, William A.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Routledge ; ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
• (where): London
• (when): 1996

Further information

• DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00346769600000037
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/262113
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