Wzory kultury a rozwój gospodarczy
Patterns of culture and economic development

Author(s): Jacenty Siewierski
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Economy
Published by: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
Keywords: cultural pattern; civilizing instrument; model of development; modernization; Christianity; Confucianism
Summary/Abstract: As a subject of consideration is an influence of cultural patterns on economic development. The comparison of two different models of development, the West model erected from the Christianity and East-Asiatic model based on the Confucianism proves the influence and vitality of the cultural legacy in the formation of both of them. Some elements of the Confucian legacy have great importance, such as a mentality in categories of the duty vs categories of rights, primacy of community over the unit and primacy of the morality over the constituted law. The Confucianism constitutes the store of the irrational tradition and cultural base of the modern society and its social order. It is proved in text that modern economic and political institutions are acting more efficiently if they are underpinned with norms originating from the cultural tradition. Future prospects of East-Asian economy are more promising than the future of the West economy.

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