An edition of Culture matters (2000)

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how values shape human progress

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An edition of Culture matters (2000)

Culture matters

how values shape human progress

"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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Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
348

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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306
Library of Congress
HM681 .C85 2000, HM681.C85 2000, HM681 .C85 2000eb, HM 681 C85 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxiv, 348 p. :
Number of pages
348

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24961871M
ISBN 10
0465031757, 0465031765
ISBN 13
9780465031757, 9780465031764
LCCN
00022951
OCLC/WorldCat
43427573, 50678899

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16063494W

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