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A forum to foster dialogue across disciplines on issues related to culture and development.and their implications for public action. Based on the book:

Culture and Public Action, Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton (editors), Stanford University Press, 2004. The South Asia Edition has been published by Permanent Black.

 

Contributors (In Order of Chapters in the Book):

Amartya Sen, Arjun Appadurai, Mary Douglas, Marco Verweij, Timur Kuran, Arjo Klamer, Lourdes Arizpe, Sabina Alkire, Anita Abraham, Jean-Phiippe Platteau, Monica Das Gupta, Carol Jenkins, Fernando Calderon, Alicia Szmuckler, Simon Harragin, Shelton Davis,Vijayendra Rao, Michael Walton

 
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Culture and Economics

 

Schools of Thought in Economics

 

Economic Models of Cultural and Relational Phenomena

An eclectic survey of how economists have attempted to model cultural and relational phenomena commissioned specially for this website:

Saumitra Jha, "Cultured Economic Theory: Oxymoron or Incipient Reality," mimeo, Stanford University."

A short essay on Culture and Sen's capability apprach by Ingrid Robeyns. (The book also has several rich discussions on this topic in the essays by Alkire, Rao and Walton and Sen.)

 

Economics of Arts and Culture

 

1) See the survey article by David Throsby, "The Production and Consumption of the Arts : A View of Cultural Economics," Journal of Economic Literature, Vol 32, No. 1, March 1994 Pp: 1- 29. If have JSTOR access you can download it here.

2) For a more detailed treatment including some applications to Development see Throsby's book, Economics and Culture, Cambridge University Press, 2001. Amazon Link is here. The Introductory Chapter is available here.

 

 

  
 

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