Culture matters : how values shape human progress / Lawrence E. Harrison, Samuel P. Huntington, editors.
"Prominent scholars and journalists ponder the question of why, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world is more divided than ever between the rich and the poor, between those living in freedom and those under oppression." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0832/000229...
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Table of Contents:
- Culture makes almost all the difference / David Landes
- Attitudes, values, beliefs, and the microeconomics of prosperity / Michael E. Porter
- Notes on a new sociology of economic development / Jeffrey Sachs
- A cultural typology of economic development / Mariano Grondona
- Culture and the behavior of elites in Latin America / Carlos Alberto Montaner
- Does Africa need a cultural adjustment program? / Daniel Etounga-Manguelle
- Culture and democracy / Ronald Inglehart
- Social capital / Francis Fukuyama
- Corruption, culture, and markets / Seymour Martin Lipset and Gabriel Salman Lenz
- Traditional beliefs and practices: Are some better than others? / Robert B. Edgerton
- Culture, childhood, and progress in Sub-Saharan Africa / Thomas S. Weisner
- Moral maps, "first world" conceits, and the new evangelists / Richard A. Shweder
- Culture, gender, and human rights / Barbara Crossette
- Culture, institutions, and gender inequality in Latin America / Mala Htun
- Taking culture seriously: a framework and an Afro-American illustration / Orlando Patterson
- Disaggregating culture / Nathan Glazer
- Law, family ties, and the East Asian way of business / Dwight H. Perkins
- "Asian values": from dynamos to dominoes? / Lucian W. Pye
- Multiple modernities: a preliminary inquiry into the implications of East Asian modernity / Tu Wei-ming
- Changing the mind of a nation: elements in a process for creating prosperity / Michael Fairbanks
- Culture, mental models, and national prosperity / Stace Lindsay
- Promoting progressive cultural change / Lawrence E. Harrison.