num_pages: 288
description: What lies behind America's economic and social decline? Can racism explain the ghetto tragedy if two-thirds of America's blacks have made it into the middle class? Why have Chinese Japanese and Korean immigrants done so much better than Mexicans? According to Lawrence E. Harrison the key to answering these and other questions is culturethe values of a people with respect to work education frugality community fair play and progress.
language: English
title: Who Prospers: How Cultural Values Shape Economic And Political Success
publisher: Basic Books