¿Qué es cultura en la «economía de la cultura»? Definiendo la cultura para crear modelos mensurables en economía cultural

Aníbal Monasterio Astobiza

doi:10.3989/arbor.2017.783n1007

Authors

Aníbal Monasterio Astobiza Universidad del País Vasco https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1399-5388

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2017.783n1007

Keywords:

Culture, evolution of culture, cultural economics, cooperation, status, psychology

Abstract

The idea of culture is somewhat vague and ambiguous for the formal goals of economics. The aim of this paper is to define the notion of culture better so as to help build economic explanations based on culture and therefore to measure its impact in every activity or beliefs associated with culture. To define culture according to the canonical evolutionary definition, it is any kind of ritualised behaviour that becomes meaningful for a group and that remains more or less constant and is transmitted down through the generations. Economic institutions are founded, implicitly or explicitly, on a worldview of how humans function; culture is an essential part of understanding us as humans, making it necessary to describe what we understand by culture correctly. In this paper we review the literature on evolutionary anthropology and psychology dealing with the concept of culture to warn that economic modelling ignores intangible benefits of culture rendering economics unable to measure certain cultural items in the digital consumer society.

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