Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Handbook of Economic Growth

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-48

  Doepke, Matthias ^a   Zilibotti, Fabrizio ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Culture; Economic growth; Endogenous preferences; Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Intergenerational preference transmission

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889044050     PISSN: 15740684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53538-2.00001-0     Document Type: Chapter

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