Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World

By Arthur M. Diamond. 2012

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An institution-based view of global IPR history (2017, background): “…formal laws, rules, and regulations are relatively transparent and measurable (Papageorgiadis, Cross, & Alexiou, 2014), informal institutions manifested in norms and values create a more lasting change in business and consumer behavior in terms of more respect for IPR (Hill, 2007; McCloskey, 2010).”
Structural change and economic development: is Brazil catching up or falling behind? (2015, background): “For details, see Nassif (2011). 21 It should be observed that from 2000 onwards the Brazilian System of National Accounts changed the reference base for its estimates, using data from the annual surveys more extensively.”
Much of the ‘economics of property rights’ devalues property and legal rights (2015, background): “2 As McCloskey (2010: 332) put it: ‘Feelings of private property are hardwired into humans, or so anyone who has raised a two-year-old will attest’.”
Innovation and entrepreneurship in India: Understanding jugaad (2015, unknown): “Growth For much of the 20th century, innovation was largely the preserve of the more advanced economies of North America, Western Europe, and Japan (McCloskey, 2010; Mokyr, 2002).”
On the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions (2017, unknown): “The institutional changes in Medieval England from the Magna Charta onwards, which arguably stand at the origin of British prosperity and the Industrial Revolution (Acemoglu and Robinson, 2010) could also be attributed to a general bourgeois culture as forcefully argued by McCloskey (2006, 2010).”
Entrepreneurship and poverty reduction: A case study of Yiwu, China (2014, background): “…attitude) and the importance of recognizing the role they can play in pursuing new ventures, simple productivity improvements, improved management techniques and generally having an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset in their daily lives (McCloskey, 2010), as the people of Yiwu have developed.”