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This paper offers a critique of ‘economic determinism’ in global history and world politics. In particular, this will be achieved by highlighting the relationship between culture and economic change. The explanation of large-scale changes in global history and world politics are used as a case-study, although the points made here are of far wider relevance than simply to those subjects. These areas offer especially clear-cut examples with which to consider this, as in recent years the economic determinist paradigm has been deployed in these subjects in an overt and explicit form.
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Dark, K. (2000). Culture and the Myth of Economic Determinism in Global History and World Politics. In: Casson, M., Godley, A. (eds) Cultural Factors in Economic Growth. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57223-4_8
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