Culture matters : how values shape human progress
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Culture matters : how values shape human progress
Basic Books, c2000
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-328) and index
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The world at the beginning of the twenty-first century is more divided than ever between the rich and the poor, between those living in freedom and those under oppression. Even in prosperous democracies, troubling gaps in well-being persist. As the credibility of traditional explanations--colonialism, dependency, racism--declines, many now believe that the principal reason why some countries and ethnic groups are better off than others lies in the cultural values that powerfully shape nations and people's political, economic, and social performance. Many of the distinguished contributors to Culture Matters believe that value and attitude change is indispensable to progress for those who are lagging. The world at the beginning of the twenty-first century is more divided than ever between the rich and the poor, between those living in freedom and those under oppression. Even in prosperous democracies, troubling gaps in well-being persist.
As the credibility of traditional explanations--colonialism, dependency, racism--declines, many now believe that the principal reason why some countries and ethnic groups are better off than others lies in the cultural values that powerfully shape nations and people's political, economic, and social performance. Many of the distinguished contributors to Culture Matters believe that value and attitude change is indispensable to progress for those who are lagging. Among the prominent scholars and journalists contributing to the volume are Francis Fukuyama, Nathan Glazer, David Landes, Seymour Martin Lipset, Orlando Patterson, Michael Porter, Jeffrey Sachs, and Richard Shweder.
Table of Contents
- I. Culture and Economic Development
- 1. David Landes Culture Makes Almost All the Difference
- 2. Michael E. Porter Attitudes, Values, Beliefs, and the Microeconomics of Prosperity
- 3. Jeffrey Sachs Notes on a New Sociology of Economic Development
- 4. Mariano Grondona A cultural Typology of Economic Development
- 5. Carlos Alberto Montaner Culture and the Behavior of Elites in Latin America
- 6. Daniel Etounga-Manguelle Does Africa Need a Cultural Adjustment
- II. Culture and Political Development
- 7. Ronald Inglehart Culture and Democracy
- 8. Francis Fukuyama Social Capital
- 9. Seymour martin Lipset and Gabriel Salman Lenz Corruption, Culture, and the Markets
- III. The Anthropological Debate
- 10. Robert B. Edgerton Traditional Beliefs and PracticesAre Some Better than Others
- 11. Thomas S. Weisner Culture, Childhood, and Progress in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 12. Richard A. Shweder moral Maps, "First World" Conceits, and the New Evangelists
- IV. Culture and Gender 13. Barbara Crossette Culture, Gender and Human Rights
- 14. Mala Htun Culture, Institutions, and Gender Inequality in Latin America
- V. Culture and American Minorities
- 15. Orlando Patterson Taking Culture Seriously: A Framework and an Afro-American Illustration
- 16. Nathan Glazer Disaggregating Culture
- VI. The Asian Crisis
- 17. Dwight H. Perkins law, Family Ties and the Eastern Asian Way of Business
- 18. Lucian W. Pye "Asian Values": From Dynamos to Dominoes?
- 19. Tu Wei-Ming Multiple Modernities: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Implications of East Asian Modernity
- VII. Promoting Change
- 20. Michael Fairbanks Changing the Mind of a Nation: Elements in a Process for Creating Prosperity
- 21. Stace Lindsay Culture, Mental Models, and National Prosperity
- 22. Lawrence E. Harrison Promoting Progressive Cultural Change.
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