Part I consists of 5 chapters:
Chapter 1: Defining Culture
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Culture as distinction
1.3 Culture as human made system
1.4 Culture as inherited assumed given
1.5 Culture as ideational factors influencing behavior
1.6 Competing terms: ideology, institutions, ethnicity, nationality
1.7 Conclusion: culture in this book
Chapter 2: How Culture Disappeared From Economics
2.1 Introduction
2.2 A history of culture in economics
2.2.1 From culture to progress
2.2.2 The essentialisation of culture
2.2.3 The politicisation of culture
2.2.4 The traditionalisation of culture
2.3 A history of culture versus economics
2.3.1 The emergence of economics as a cultureless science
2.3.2 The removal of context
2.3.3 Universal rationality versus specific culture
2.3.4 Development economics: where culture and Economics still meet
2.4 Conclusion
Chapter 3: Explaining the Rise of Culture in Modern Economics
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Modern economics: the cultureless science
3.3 Culture’s comeback
3.3.1 The expansion of economic thought
3.3.2 The limitations of the market model
3.3.3 The Asian values debate
3.3.4 Culture hits the mainstream: New Institutional Economics and behavioral
game theory
3.4 Meanwhile, in cultural sciences
3.5 Conclusion
Chapter 4: Culture in Economics: Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Economy and culture
4.2.1 Culture as (source of) preferences
4.2.2 Culture as (source of) constraints
4.2.3 Culture as deviations from the model
4.3 Economy as culture
4.3.1 The cultural context of the market economy
4.3.2 Economy as system of meaning; anthropological approaches
4.4 Culture as economics
4.4.1 The Chicago School
4.4.2 Cultural materialism
4.4.3 Strategic identity and the economics of identity construction
4.5 The Culture of economics
4.5.1 Economics and hegemony
4.5.2 The culture of economists
4.6 Conclusion
Chapter 5: A Methodological Perspective on Culture in Economics
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Methodological challenges for cultural economics
5.2.1 From micro to macro and back
5.2.2 Cultural bias: idiographic and nomothetic approaches
5.3 Methods
5.3.1 Comparative experiments
5.3.2 Values surveys and dimensions of culture
5.4 Conclusion