Culture and economic explanation
Subtitle: economics in the US and Japan
By: Donald W. Katzner.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Abingdon [England]; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415774796; 9780203931059
Subjects: Economics -- Japan; Economics -- United States; Culture -- Economic aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: culture, economics and economic behavior; title: Western economics and the economy of Japan; title: "What are the questions"?; title: An analytical vision of the workings of the United States economy; title: The workings of the Japanese economy; title: Explaining the Japanese economic miracle; title: The role of optimization in economics; title: Economics and the principle of uniformity; title: Cultural variation and the theory of the firm; title: Culture and the explanation of choice behaviour.