01577nam a22002297a 4500 20220510143634.0 220510b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0465031765 AL English 23 306 HARC Lawrence E Harrison and others 35714 Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress New York Basic Books 2000 xxxiv,348 p. PB 20x13.5 cm. 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. Social Values 35715 Culture 35716 HARRISON (Lawrence E) Ed 35717 HUNTINGTON (Samuel P) Ed 35718 ddc GF 222866 222866 0 0 ddc 0 0 SOC AL AL 2013-03-24 0 306 HARC GF03038 2022-05-10 00:00:00 2022-05-10 GF