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Some Social and Cultural Influences on Economic Growth: The Case of the Maori*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Robert S. Merrill
Robert S. Merrill
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
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Recent interest in promoting the economic development of the so-called “underdeveloped” areas has stimulated concern with the problem of the effects of social anil cultural institutions on economic growth. A major difficulty in the study of this problem is the scarcity of cases of marked economic development in non-Western cultural milieus, Japan being the major striking exception. Under these circumstances it may be of some interest to examine cases of less striking change on a smaller scale, not only for what can be learned about each case, but also for the assistance they may give in interpreting the more numerous cases of little or no economic growth.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , Fall 1954 , pp. 401 - 408
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1954

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* A full-fledged monograph, completely documented, on the Maori experience will be published shortly. The best published account, in which I am deeply indebted, is: Raymond Firth, Primitive Economics of the New Zealand Maori (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1929).