ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the outcomes which have been connected with culture. In the former sense culture impacts on political development as well as on economic and social development, where political development is stable democracy, social development stands for equality and economic development refers to affluence or economic growth. One may employ a cross-sectional approach to the explanation of the variation in macro outcomes, using cultural preferences as one explanatory factor. High levels of economic affluence are a key outcome, since they remain crucial to improvements in the living conditions of the population. Quality of life is linked to economic development, but it is not a linear function of affluence. In the former sense culture impacts on political development as well as on economic and social development, where political development is stable democracy, social development stands for equality and economic development refers to affluence or economic growth.
