Politics and CULTURAL economics ANIL MITRA, © JULY 2015—June 2019 CONTENTS Cultural and economic dimensions (elements of process)
CULTURAL economics PlanReview and elaborate this material. Add comments to the boxes in the matrix below. UseItems to be identified
The people; their divisions and groups Culture; include knowledge, religion, media and press Economic Politics; government and its branches
A preliminary frameworkIssues of equilibrium, disequilibrium, ideology, information. Who rules? Factors of equilibriumDecision makers – followers Production – consumption Owners of means – labor and its kinds Information sources – readers Truth – diffusion – lie Conserve – change / conservative – liberal Society – nature Power: central – diffuse / few – many Rural – urban – primal IssuesEquilibrium vs disequilibrium Balance vs ideology Rationalism vs rational thought, action, and values “History”, i.e. its unpredictable vs predictable aspects Cultural and economic dimensions (elements of process)Although politics and economics may be different concepts, the ‘objects’ are highly interactive. The table below is an initial attempt to show some dimensions of the interaction. It includes but is not limited to factors emphasized by Marx and Schumpeter.
Table 1 A model for politics and economics that includes but is not limited to factors of Marxian and Schumpeterian political economy. |