Some notes on work ethos and economic development

These notes suggest a methodology that may lead to an ordinal ranking of societies, economies and ethic groups, either in the past or in the present, on the basis of their work ethos. These rankings may then be employed to test my thesis that work ethos has had an important influence on the pace of economic development in LDCs. As a suggestive exercise, I have presented some evidence to compare the work ethos in Colombia with some Far Eastern economies.