
Explaining Western Success
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The Importance of Market Integration in Modern Society
Western law is particularly peculiar, and it began to develop in the high middle agesa. It assigns individuals rights, these invisible properties that we seem to have. Most other legal systems are deeply concerned about the nature of ties between perpetrators and victims. Notions of human rights seem intuitive to analytically oriented individualist individualists ain inclined to moral universalism. But they're rather non intuitive to folks from societies with intensive kinship,. limited market integration and few competing tary associations.
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