This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ("pre-confirmatory bias") and perceptions (confirmatory bias), and are themselves constrained by fundamental values. The authors illustrate the model using the historical construction of racial categories. Given the post-Reformation fundamental...
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2010/02/01
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS5219
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1
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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Equilibrium fictions : a cognitive approach to societal rigidity
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belief system