The need of further research on the interlink between culture and institutions has been strongly advocated by economists and institutionalists alike. However, bringing together culture and institutions within an organic framework, though, is a non-trivial operation. This is due to the complexity of the synergies between cultural aspects and institutional devices. This special issue attempts to start filling this gap and to build an ad-hoc systemic platform for disseminating such a debate. To this purpose, it brings together an organic collection of contributions in well-established conceptualisations of both culture and institutions, supported by robust and consistent methodological applications. The essays presented in this work provide consistent evidence and conceptual perspectives supporting the idea that the synergies between cultural and institutional aspects are of paramount importance to understand human behaviour, individuals' choices and societies' patterns. They also improve the theoretical, empirical and methodological understanding of the role of institutions and culture in different geopolitical and socio-economic realms. By doing so, these contributions place this special issue as prelude to further research on the co-evolution of culture and institutions and on its possible implications on different societal aspects, human development and well-being.

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经济背景下的制度与文化特刊简介

经济学家和制度主义者都强烈主张进一步研究文化与制度之间的联系。然而，将文化和制度整合到一个有机框架内，却并非易事。这是由于文化方面和制度设备之间的协同作用的复杂性。本期特刊试图开始填补这一空白并建立一个特设传播此类辩论的系统平台。为此，它汇集了在完善的文化和制度概念化方面的有机贡献，并得到稳健和一致的方法论应用的支持。这项工作中提出的论文提供了一致的证据和概念观点，支持这样一种观点，即文化和制度方面之间的协同作用对于理解人类行为、个人选择和社会模式至关重要。它们还提高了对制度和文化在不同地缘政治和社会经济领域中的作用的理论、经验和方法理解。通过这样做，