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cultural studies need to address constraints

It is often spoken of a sweeping influence of culture on economic prosperity (Culture Matters of Samuel Huntington and Lawrence Harrison, 2001). I have doubts about the scientific nature of this claim. The concept of culture is taken as a pretext to represent different statements as non-verifiable. This is done so in the mentioned band from Huntington, where certain cultures are represented as an obstacle to development (How Values Shape Human Progress). One would using cultural studies easily capture the preferences correctly (such as defining specific parameters for that) and then play to the economic approach can be. The fundamental error in the cultural debate, in my opinion, that culture itself is seen as a pure given preference. But cultural preferences are often not as the result of one or more restrictions.

An example would be the Bacalhau, the salted cod, which is usually consumed only in the Lusophone space. It is geographically limited than a typical Portuguese cultural preference: Although it is true that the economy is not interested in it, where the preference is. And they can not really explain it, if it remains within the discipline. But if cultural studies seek to explain preferences in law and say they should think about with restrictions which they are associated. Originally, the heavily salted Bacalhau the only existing preservable and sea food on the world travel to the Portuguese: The Portuguese sometimes for non-hard-enjoy recipe was so in extreme situations, namely the restriction of life on a ship at circumnavigation. To the preference for an entire people in the country, it was later reinforced since 16 Century with the abandonment of agriculture, because the rent was higher in the colonies and their slave labor overseas.

I would think you do not have the economic approach restricted by cultural reasons, but on the contrary, the economic approach as far as possible spread to the culture so that the culture of science is better, not just the economy. The cultural preferences can not be blamed because the economic approach does not work, but a certain rationality lives just hold also manifestations of culture, even if this rationality is not currently calculated, but rather historically understood and explained can.