经济学家们一直不愿将文化列为经济现象的决定因素。文化的概念是如此宽泛,以及它进入经济论著的途径是如此含混不清,以至于要设计一个可验证的假说是很困难的。本文证明情况正是如此。我们采用了狭义的文化定义,从而可以采用一个简单的研究方法并以此来检验基于文化的解释。我们还提出了该研究方法的几种适用情况:从成为企业家的选择到储蓄量的选择,再到收入分配的政治决策。 Economists have been reluctant to include culture as a determinant of economic phenomena. The concept of culture is so broad and its approach to economic theory is so vague that it is difficult to design a verifiable hypothesis. This article proves the situation is exactly the case. We have adopted a narrow cultural definition so that a simple research approach can be used to test culturally based explanations. We also propose several ways of applying this research approach: from choice as an entrepreneur to choice of savings to political decision-making on income distribution.