Political Economy of the Interaction between Culture, Values and Economic Development

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530304
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: Hori Nobuaki 九州大学, 経済学研究院, 准教授 (50304720)
• Research Collaborator: SENG Peseth Orkide Villa Co., Ltd ; KURITA Kenichi 九州大学, 大学院経済学府, 大学院生 ; LUO Xiaoyi Shenzhen University, Postdoctoral Fellow
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 文化伝達 / 政治経済学 / 世俗 / 宗教 / 民主主義 / アラブの春 / 低開発の罠 / 資源の呪い

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Some theoretical models have been developed to study the interaction between the economic development process and the cultural factors such as values and social beliefs. “Political Regime Change and Cultural Transmission of Secularism” analyzed the interaction between the evolution of the cultural values of secularism and the political regime changes. It was shown that, in the society with an innate political instability, secularism, which could be the foundation of a consolidated democracy, can hardly diffuse. “Social Capital, Resource Boom and Underdevelopment Traps” shown that a certain term of resource boom could decline the social norms that harmonize with modern production modes, and as a result, the economy could be trapped into the “underdevelopment trap”. This can be a new interpretation of the “resource curse.”

Free Research Field

応用経済理論、政治経済学、社会経済学、経済発展論