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Introduction to the special issue on institutions and culture in economic contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2021

Luca Andriani  and
Randolph Luca Bruno Open the ORCID record for Randolph Luca Bruno [Opens in a new window]
Luca Andriani*
Affiliation:
School of Business, Economics and Informatics, Birkbeck University of London, London, UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Randolph Luca Bruno
Affiliation:
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, London, UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti, Milan, Italy IZA, Intitute of Labor, Bonn, Germany
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Abstract

The need of further research on the interlink between culture and institutions has been strongly advocated by economists and institutionalists alike. However, bringing together culture and institutions within an organic framework, though, is a non-trivial operation. This is due to the complexity of the synergies between cultural aspects and institutional devices. This special issue attempts to start filling this gap and to build an ad-hoc systemic platform for disseminating such a debate. To this purpose, it brings together an organic collection of contributions in well-established conceptualisations of both culture and institutions, supported by robust and consistent methodological applications. The essays presented in this work provide consistent evidence and conceptual perspectives supporting the idea that the synergies between cultural and institutional aspects are of paramount importance to understand human behaviour, individuals' choices and societies' patterns. They also improve the theoretical, empirical and methodological understanding of the role of institutions and culture in different geopolitical and socio-economic realms. By doing so, these contributions place this special issue as prelude to further research on the co-evolution of culture and institutions and on its possible implications on different societal aspects, human development and well-being.

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Cultural dimensionscultureinstitutions
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Journal of Institutional Economics , Volume 18 , Special Issue 1: Institutions and Culture in Economic Contexts , February 2022 , pp. 1 - 14
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Millennium Economics Ltd.

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