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Culture, action and institutions: on exploring the historical economic success of England and Japan (1995)
Book Chapter
Inkster, I. (1995). Culture, action and institutions: on exploring the historical economic success of England and Japan. In P. Gouk (Ed.), Wellsprings of achievement: cultural and economic dynamics in early modern England and Japan (239-266). Variorum

Japan was peculiar in its institutional make-up, in its dependence on commitment over kinship, of group over individual, or of proper station over rational choice, but these characteristics were not immutable, immiscible, or essential to the Japanese... Read More about Culture, action and institutions: on exploring the historical economic success of England and Japan.