Culture Matters How Values Shape Human Progress,9780465031764

Culture Matters How Values Shape Human Progress

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ISBN13: 9780465031764
ISBN10: 0465031765
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-04-05
Publisher(s): Basic Books
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Lawrence E. Harrison directed USAID missions in five Latin American countries between 1965 and 1981. He is the author of Underdevelopment Is a State of Mind: The Latin American Case, and was the U.S. member on the Haiti crisis mission of the Organization of American States in 1991 and 1992. Lawrence E. Harrison is a senior fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and the author of Who Prospers? and The Pan-American Dream.Samuel P. Huntington is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor of Government at Harvard University and the author of The Clash of Civilizations and The Remaking of the World Order.

Table of Contents

Table and Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments xi
Foreword xiii
Samuel P. Huntington
Introduction xvii
Lawrence E. Harrison
I Culture and Economic Development
Culture Makes Almost All the Difference
2(12)
David Landes
Attitudes, Values, Beliefs, and the Microeconomics of Prosperity
14(15)
Michael E. Porter
Notes on a New Sociology of Economic Development
29(15)
Jeffrey Sachs
A Cultural Typology of Economic Development
44(12)
Mariano Grondona
Culture and the Behavior of Elites in Latin America
56(9)
Carlos Alberto Montaner
Does Africa Need a Cultural Adjustment Program?
65(15)
Daniel Etounga-Manguelle
II Culture and Political Development
Culture and Democracy
80(18)
Ronald Inglehart
Social Capital
98(14)
Francis Fukuyama
Corruption, Culture, and Markets
112(14)
Seymour Martin Lipset
Gabriel Salman Lenz
III The Anthropological Debate
Traditional Beliefs and Practices---Are Some Better than Others?
126(15)
Robert B. Edgerton
Culture, Childhood, and Progress in Sub-Saharan Africa
141(17)
Thomas S. Weisner
Moral Maps, ``First World'' Conceits, and the New Evangelists
158(20)
Richard A. Shweder
IV Culture and Gender
Culture, Gender, and Human Rights
178(11)
Barbara Crossette
Culture, Institutions, and Gender Inequality in Latin America
189(13)
Mala Htun
V Culture and American Minorities
Taking Culture Seriously: A Framework and an Afro-American Illustration
202(17)
Orlando Patterson
Disaggregating Culture
219(13)
Nathan Glazer
VI The Asian Crisis
Law, Family Ties, and the East Asian Way of Business
232(12)
Dwight H. Perkins
``Asian Values'': From Dynamos to Dominoes?
244(12)
Lucian W. Pye
Multiple Modernities: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Implications of East Asian Modernity
256(12)
Tu Wei-Ming
VII Promoting Change
Changing the Mind of a Nation: Elements in a Process for Creating Prosperity
268(14)
Michael Fairbanks
Culture, Mental Models, and National Prosperity
282(14)
Stace Lindsay
Promoting Progressive Cultural Change
296(13)
Lawrence E. Harrison
Notes 309(20)
Biographical Sketches of Contributors 329(4)
Index 333

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