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Economic Culture and Economic Performance

Edmund S. Phelps
CESifo, Munich, 2024

EconPol Forum 25 (3), 47-52
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  • This paper explores the effects of several cultural values, attitudes, and the like, on some of the main dimensions of economic performance
  • It shows a weak correlation between continental countries’ relative endowment of some cultural attributes and the relative performance of their national economies
  • However, not all of the cultural attributes hypothesized to be important were found to matter for performance
  • And not all continental countries were under-endowed in some of the cultural attributes that mattered a lot

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