Traditional Sharing Norms as an Obstacle to Economic Growth in Tribal Societies

Jean-Philippe Platteau (jean-philippe.platteau@fundp.ac.be)

Working Papers from Notre-Dame de la Paix, Sciences Economiques et Sociales

Abstract: This first objective of the paper is to achieve a better understanding of the values and the worldview that lead traditional tribal societies to distribute wealth and incomes in manners that are hostile to economic change. The second objective can be persued namely that of identifying ways of getting out of the vicious "traditional" equilibrium in which all change would be blocked owning to the interplay of self-erinforcing forces.

Keywords: HISTORICAL ANALYSIS; CULTURE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B10 B25 B29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 1996
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