
Explaining Western Success
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The Weirdest People in the World
iad: I didn't fully appreciate the convergence until i returnd to hiak's work. The only work of hyk that iad read prior to about two weeks ago was the fatal conceit, and id read that back in the 19 nineties. So as was mentioned, weird stands for western educated, industrialized, rich and democratic. My first question was whether we can explain the global and regional variation in individualism, conformity, shame versus guilt,. analytic thinking, moral universalism and co operation among strangers. But the key question is, what are the institutions and why did they emerge soa then, as i dug into the research, new studies in economics began to appear
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