An edition of Culture matters
(2000)
Culture matters
how values shape human progress
by Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington
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"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/fy0832/00022951-d.html.
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Desenvolvimento economico, Ontwikkelingsproblematiek, Culturele waarden, Cultuurverandering, Culture, Cultuur, Social values, Valeurs sociales, Humanism, Values, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Anthropology, Cultural, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Cultural Policy, Popular Culture, Kultur, Wertordnung, Aufsatzsammlung, Modernisierung, Demokratisierung, Kulturwandel, Kongress, Hm681 .c85 2000, Hm 681 c85 2000, 306| Edition | Availability |
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Culture matters: how values shape human progress
2000, Basic Books
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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.
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