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Claudia Williamson - Does Culture Effect Economic Progress?

The Curious Task

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The Importance of Culture in Economic Development

David Frum: There is an over emphasis on institutions or the formal rules and a blind spot for culture in development economics. He says classical liberal circles often talk about contract law rule of law, you know this type of all that kind of stuff. In developing nations it's more of a knowledge issue so we need economic freedom but we don't really know how to get them in places where they don't exist he says.

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