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How Values Shape Human Progress

LAWRENCE E. HARRISON SAMUEL P. H U N T I N G T O N
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Copyright 0 2000 by Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington Published by Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus BooksGroup All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. ,For information, address Basic Books, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY10022-5299. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Culture matters : how values shape human progress / Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington, editors. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-465-03175-7 (cloth) ISBN 0-465-03176-5 (paper) 1. Socialvalues.2.Culture.I.Harrison,Lawrence E. 11. Huntington, Samuel P. HM68 1.C85 2000 306-dc2 1 00-022951
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CONTENTS

Table and Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword, SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON -Cultures Count xiii Introduction, LAWRENCE E. HARRISON- Why CultureMatters
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LANDES-CUltUre Makes Almost All the Difference, 2 PORTER-Attitudes, Values, Beliefs, and the Microeconomics of Prosperity, 14 JEFFREY SACHS-Notes on a New sociology of Economic Development, 29 MARIANO GRONDONA-A CulturalTypology of Economic Development, 44 CARLOS ALBERT0 MONTANER-culture and the Behavior of Elites in Latin America, 5 6 DANIEL ETOUNGA-MANGUELLE-DOeS Africa Need a Cultural Adjustment Program?, 65
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