Comments on: Mentality http://simun.info/ehlog/mentality.html A blog about history, technology and economy Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:52:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Thorstein Veblen http://simun.info/ehlog/mentality.html#comment-5401 Thorstein Veblen Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:56:53 +0000 http://simun.info/ehlog/mentality.html#comment-5401 You wrote: "Government policy may shift incentives around and influence behaviour of individuals, but changing the mentality of the nation would be beyond the power of bureaucrats." Pick up a volume on the cultural revolution in China and then repeat your thesis that changing the mentality of the country is beyond the power of bureaucrats. I like your blog, but that is one of the most ignorant comments I've ever heard. You wrote: “Government policy may shift incentives around and influence behaviour of individuals, but changing the mentality of the nation would be beyond the power of bureaucrats.”

Pick up a volume on the cultural revolution in China and then repeat your thesis that changing the mentality of the country is beyond the power of bureaucrats. I like your blog, but that is one of the most ignorant comments I’ve ever heard.

]]> By: Guillermo Arosemena Arosemena http://simun.info/ehlog/mentality.html#comment-5220 Guillermo Arosemena Arosemena Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:42:00 +0000 http://simun.info/ehlog/mentality.html#comment-5220 The mentality concept is not new nor is coined by Croatia. On page 32 of Kindleberger´s book World Economic Primacy, he defines Mentalités: "The french historical school lays great weight on mentalités or social values, in steering economic development" The mentality concept is not new nor is coined by Croatia. On page 32 of Kindleberger´s book World Economic Primacy, he defines Mentalités: “The french historical school lays great weight on mentalités or social values, in steering economic development”

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