Unintended consequences
Subtitle: the impact of factor endowments, culture, and politics on long run economic performance
By: Deepak Lal.
Series: The Ohlin lectures ;; 7
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Economic history -- Congresses; Social history -- Congresses; Individualism -- Congresses; Applied anthropology -- Congresses
Description: 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."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-275) and index.
"A somewhat expanded version of the Ohlin Memorial Lectures...delivered at the Stockholm School of economics in the autumn of 1995"--Preface.