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Tables of Contents for Culture Matters
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Table and Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Foreword
xiii
Samuel P. Huntington
Introduction
xvii
Lawrence E. Harrison
I Culture and Economic Development
Culture Makes Almost All the Difference
2
12
David Landes
Attitudes, Values, Beliefs, and the Microeconomics of Prosperity
14
15
Michael E. Porter
Notes on a New Sociology of Economic Development
29
15
Jeffrey Sachs
A Cultural Typology of Economic Development
44
12
Mariano Grondona
Culture and the Behavior of Elites in Latin America
56
9
Carlos Alberto Montaner
Does Africa Need a Cultural Adjustment Program?
65
15
Daniel Etounga-Manguelle
II Culture and Political Development
Culture and Democracy
80
18
Ronald Inglehart
Social Capital
98
14
Francis Fukuyama
Corruption, Culture, and Markets
112
14
Seymour Martin Lipset
Gabriel Salman Lenz
III The Anthropological Debate
Traditional Beliefs and Practices---Are Some Better than Others?
126
15
Robert B. Edgerton
Culture, Childhood, and Progress in Sub-Saharan Africa
141
17
Thomas S. Weisner
Moral Maps, ``First World'' Conceits, and the New Evangelists
158
20
Richard A. Shweder
IV Culture and Gender
Culture, Gender, and Human Rights
178
11
Barbara Crossette
Culture, Institutions, and Gender Inequality in Latin America
189
13
Mala Htun
V Culture and American Minorities
Taking Culture Seriously: A Framework and an Afro-American Illustration
202
17
Orlando Patterson
Disaggregating Culture
219
13
Nathan Glazer
VI The Asian Crisis
Law, Family Ties, and the East Asian Way of Business
232
12
Dwight H. Perkins
``Asian Values'': From Dynamos to Dominoes?
244
12
Lucian W. Pye
Multiple Modernities: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Implications of East Asian Modernity
256
12
Tu Wei-Ming
VII Promoting Change
Changing the Mind of a Nation: Elements in a Process for Creating Prosperity
268
14
Michael Fairbanks
Culture, Mental Models, and National Prosperity
282
14
Stace Lindsay
Promoting Progressive Cultural Change
296
13
Lawrence E. Harrison
Notes
309
20
Biographical Sketches of Contributors
329
4
Index
333