TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lal,  Deepak
TI  - Unintended consequences : the impact of factor endowments, Culture, and politics on long-run  economic performance
SN  - 978-0195651537
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Applied anthropology
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Individualism
N1  - Rs.550/-; 1. On Culture --
2. The Ancient Civilizations I: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Judea --
3. The Ancient Civilizations II: India and China --
4. Islam --
5. The Rise of the West --
6. The Course of Individualism --
7. India and China in Modern Times --
8. The Far East --
9. The West and the Rest --
10. Conclusions
N2  - 	
In this book, based on the 1995 Ohlin Lectures, Deepak Lal provides an accessible, interdisciplinary account of the role of culture in shaping economic performance. Lal's first major theme is the interaction of factor endowments, culture, and politics in explaining modern intensive growth in the West. The other major theme is the role of individualism - an inadvertent legacy of the medieval Catholic Church - in promoting this growth, and the strange metamorphoses this has caused in both the West's cosmological beliefs and the interaction between "the West and the rest."
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