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04/08/2024 SOURCE: marginalrevolution.com

Cultivating Minds: The Psychological Consequences of Rice versus Wheat Farming - Marginal REVOLUTION

It’s long been argued that the means of production influence social, cultural and psychological processes. Rice farming, for example, requires complex irrigation systems under communal management and intense, coordinated labor. Thus, it has been argued that successful rice farming communities tend to develop people with collectivist orientations, and cultural ways of thinking that emphasize group […]

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