Confucius and Capitalism: Views of Confucianism in Works on Confucianism and Economic Development

Jochim, Christian

doi:10.1179/073776992805307539

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“…We are rather interested in Weber's conception of Protestant Culture as a set of ascetic and elitist assumptions that put pleasure and ethics in opposite corners of a contentious ring, as a foundational axiom of productive modernity. Weber was aware of the risk of oversimplification he was facing by choosing to venture into comparative cultural explanations of socio-economic development [152]. His ultimate goal was to upset the materialist determinism that stifled scholarship at the turn of the 20th century, prying open that determinism with a comparative history of religions as causal factors of social development.…”

Section: Parting Waysmentioning

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Optimism of the Will. Antonio Gramsci Takes in Max Weber

Sommer

Sacco

2019

Sustainability

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Responding to Max Weber's dour predictions, we enlist Antonio Gramsci's optimism to suggest how culture can spike development. Weber's sociological focus took culture to mean shared beliefs and practices. As a culture that derives from the Protestant Ethic, capitalism waged a "war on pleasure." Weber warned that this unfeeling rationality would generate an "iron cage" to trap our humanity, but his book has been read, paradoxically, as a manual for the lock down. Gramsci, on the contrary, understood culture in its humanistic sense, as a field of aesthetic pleasure, innovation, and debate. For him, a precondition for transformational social change was the broad engagement of masses as empowered collectives (Weber favored charismatic leaders); and pleasure in idiosyncratic forms of artistic as well as rooted expression was the fuel for participating in personal and shared advances. This pleasure in art and collective interpretation contrasts with the exclusionary rituals of commodified pleasure typical of capitalist consumerism. Gramsci's confidence in the transformational role of creative culture provides a framework for understanding a new wave of inclusive artistic practices that originate in the Global South and that revive the arts as vehicles for active citizenship. Participatory art can re-enchant today's sorely disenchanted socio-cultural world of mature capitalism.

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Section: Parting Waysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Optimism of the Will. Antonio Gramsci Takes in Max Weber

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2019

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“…In addition, a unique cultural factor based on Confucianism also made a comparable pattern of economic development in South Korea and Taiwan where the government played a bigger role in implementing the industrial policy based on the export-oriented industrialization than the private sectors because social relationship built on Confucianistic ideology is more likely to be vertical than horizontal in that the government is powerful enough to dominate other sectors in a society (Hahm & Paik, 2003;Jochim, 2013). In the process of implementing a new industrial policy with the promotion of the HCIs in South Korea and Taiwan, thus, various structural conditions in South Korea and Taiwan, such as strong Confucianistic cultural traits, strong leadership style of key policy makers, and consistent threat from the neighboring communist regimes, made the pattern of economic development based on the considerable government intervention (Amsden, 1989;Koo, 1987;Sakong, 1993) that was characterized as a developmental state in that the government has more independent or autonomous power, as well as controlling power over the private market behavior (Onis, 1991;Johnson, 1982;Evans, 1995).…”

Section: The Economic Development In South Korea and Taiwan In The 70mentioning

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Leader, Government, and Market: The Economic Development of South Korea and Taiwan in the 70s and 80s

Han

2018

SASS

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South Korea and Taiwan experienced the extremely rare type of high-level, sustained postwar economic growth.While it has attracted the attention of many scholars who found out the identical pattern of economic developmentbetween South Korea and Taiwan by focusing on the similar structural conditions, relatively less attention has beengiven to the development mechanism South Korea and Taiwan employed to develop their economy. Furthermore,few studies have highlighted the role of actors in the process of economic development in South Korea and Taiwanbecause most of previous studies have focused on the structural conditions. This study aimed to examine how SouthKorea and Taiwan have developed their economy by discovering the type of a development mechanism employed.Based on using the set of secondary data source, this study found out that South Korea and Taiwan achieved aphenomenal economic development based on the export-oriented industrialization. However, South Korean economywas developed by the government-led development mechanism, while Taiwanese economy was developed by themarket-led development mechanism. And, the difference in the way of developing their economy was mainly causedby not only several structural conditions, such as the consensus between the government and private sector over thematter of economic development, the urgency of economic development, and the existence of vertical social system,but also the characteristics, such as the leadership style of key policy makers.

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“…Traditional Chinese values originated from Confucian cultural ethos (Jochim 1992;Yao 2000), which is a collectivist-based value system that emphasizes and glorifies collective interests over individual rights (Guo 2012). In China, which has long been a collectivist society (Fiske 2002), consumers are "we" oriented, their "self" identity is primarily an interdependent self that is based on the social system (Lu 2001) in which family interests are placed above those of individuals within it (Wu and Tseng 1985).…”

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Virtual Goods Markets and Economy in China: A Historic Account

Zhang¹

2016

MGDR

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Rapidly expanding virtual goods markets and virtual economy are thriving worldwide in general, and in China in particular. This paper reviews the growth of virtual goods markets in China and builds a historical narrative of the rapidly changing (or dynamic) and persistently unchanged (or relatively static) aspects of reality in China that condition virtuality and virtual goods markets. The review and historical analysis provide a perspective of a larger place -a total reality -where the virtuality and virtual goods markets exist, along with the physical aspects, and suggest that virtual goods marketers need to pay more attention to China's unique environmental context when designing marketing strategy.

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Confucius and Capitalism: Views of Confucianism in Works on Confucianism and Economic Development

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Optimism of the Will. Antonio Gramsci Takes in Max Weber

Optimism of the Will. Antonio Gramsci Takes in Max Weber

Leader, Government, and Market: The Economic Development of South Korea and Taiwan in the 70s and 80s

Virtual Goods Markets and Economy in China: A Historic Account

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