Table of Contents:
  • 1.Culture Makes Almost All the Difference / David Landes
  • 2. Attitudes, Values, Beliefs, and the Microeconomics of Prosperity / Michael E. Porter
  • 3. Notes on a New Sociology of Economic Development / Jeffrey Sachs
  • 4. A Cultural Typology of Economic Development / Mariano Grondona
  • 5. Culture and the Behavior of Elites in Latin America / Carlos Alberto Montaner
  • 6. Does Africa Need a Cultural Adjustment Program? / Daniel Etounga-Manguelle
  • 7. Culture and Democracy / Ronald Inglehart
  • 8. Social Capital / Francis Fukuyama
  • 9. Corruption, Culture, and Markets / Seymour Martin Lipset and Gabriel Salman Lenz
  • 10. Traditional Beliefs and Practices - Are Some Better than Others? / Robert B. Edgerton
  • 11.Culture, Childhood, and Progress in Sub-Saharan Africa / Thomas S. Weisner
  • 12. Moral Maps, "First World" Conceits, and the New Evangelists / Richard A. Shweder
  • 13. Culture, Gender, and Human Rights / Barbara Crossette
  • 14. Culture, Institutions, and Gender Inequality in Latin America / Mala Htun
  • 15. Taking Culture Seriously: A Framework and an Afro-American Illustration / Orlando Patterson
  • 16. Disaggregating Culture / Nathan Glazer
  • 17. Law, Family Ties, and the East Asian Way of Business / Dwight H. Perkins
  • 18. "Asian Values": From Dynamos to Dominoes? / Lucian W. Pye
  • 19 Multiple Modernities: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Implications of East Asian Modernity / Tu Wei-Ming
  • 20. Changing the Mind of a Nation: Elements in a Process for Creating Prosperity / Michael Fairbanks
  • 21. Culture, Mental Models, and National Prosperity / Stace Lindsay
  • 22. Promoting Progressive Cultural Change / Lawrence E. Harrison.