Cultural relativism and ideological policy makers in a dynamic model with endogenous preferences

Luigi Bonatti ()

No 712, Department of Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics, University of Trento, Italia

Abstract: This paper shows that two societies differing because of the people�s initial propensity to devote time and efforts to non-profit activities may never converge. This lack of convergence is interpreted as the tendency of the cultural values and attitudes dominant in each society to perpetuate because of the economic behavior and the social processes that they contribute to elicit. Furthermore, it may not be possible to rank the different steady states toward which these two societies converge according to the Paretian criterion. Finally, the paper examines policies that promote values and attitudes non coincident with those that are currently dominant.

Keywords: Economic policy; Multiple steady states; Social capital; Altruism; Non-profit. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D11 D60 H20 J30 L31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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