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Culture Matters

Culture Matters How Values Shape Human Progress

Hardback (18 May 2000)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780465031757
Publisher: Basic Books
Imprint: Basic Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 306
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 694g
Height: 236mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 32mm