Culture matters
Subtitle: how values shape human progress
By: Lawrence E. Harrison, Samuel P. Huntington, editors
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780465031757; 9780465031764
Subjects: Desenvolvimento economico; Ontwikkelingsproblematiek; Culturele waarden; Cultuurverandering; Culture; Cultuur; Social values; Valeurs sociales
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Culture makes almost all the difference / David Landes; title: Attitudes, values, beliefs, and the microeconomics of prosperity / Michael E. Porter; title: Notes on a new sociology of economic development / Jeffrey Sachs; title: A cultural typology of economic development / Mariano Grondona; title: Culture and the behavior of elites in Latin America / Carlos Alberto Montaner; title: Does Africa need a cultural adjustment program? / Daniel Etounga-Manguelle; title: Culture and democracy / Ronald Inglehart; title: Social capital / Francis Fukuyama; title: Corruption, culture, and markets / Seymour Martin Lipset and Gabriel Salman Lenz; title: Traditional beliefs and practices: Are some better than others? / Robert B. Edgerton; title: Culture, childhood, and progress in Sub-Saharan Africa / Thomas S. Weisner; title: Moral maps, "first world" conceits, and the new evangelists / Richard A. Shweder; title: Culture, gender, and human rights / Barbara Crossette; title: Culture, institutions, and gender inequality in Latin America / Mala Htun; title: Taking culture seriously: a framework and an Afro-American illustration / Orlando Patterson; title: Disaggregating culture / Nathan Glazer; title: Law, family ties, and the East Asian way of business / Dwight H. Perkins; title: "Asian values": from dynamos to dominoes? / Lucian W. Pye; title: Multiple modernities: a preliminary inquiry into the implications of East Asian modernity / Tu Wei-ming; title: Changing the mind of a nation: elements in a process for creating prosperity / Michael Fairbanks; title: Culture, mental models, and national prosperity / Stace Lindsay; title: Promoting progressive cultural change / Lawrence E. Harrison.