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Cargando... Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress (2001)por Lawrence E. Harrison
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Culture Matters provides readers with a variety of arguments on different arguments on the question of development, and to what degree behavior changes outweigh technological or political factors. Personally, I find that Culture Matters, written at the height of Globalization, may be slightly outdated in its meta-argument, but this is probably due to the fact that there hasn't been enough global continuity to establish another such text. This is also my opinion on Thomas Friedman: Culture Matters may have that one drawback, but the usefulness and overall quality of the text greatly outweighs this. I highly recommend reading. ( ) Estou lendo esse livro que através de diversos artigos que antes foram palestras proferidas num encontro em Harvard. Neles se debate como aspectos culturais podem impactar o desenvolvimento econômico. Um livro muito importante para quem quer sair do modelo de patrulha ideológica dominante e está aberto para ouvir opiniões diversas, as vezes até contraditórias mas que servem como base para uma reflexão profunda sobre as sociedades e sobre o futuro do mundo. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Prominent scholars and journalists ponder the question of why, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world is more divided than ever between the rich and the poor, between those living in freedom and those under oppression." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0832/00022951-d.html.
The Asian and Russian financial crises have helped fuel a growing debate over the impact of culture on economic performance. In this useful guide to the controversy, many authors hark back to Max Weber's essay on the Protestant work ethic and the origins of capitalism in Europe, which showed how Calvinism unintentionally stimulated productive economic activity. Building on this view, David Landes argues that culture does make a difference -- but in ways more complex than is usually acknowledged. Jeffrey Sachs is more skeptical, contending that modern economic growth is directly tied to capitalist institutions and conducive geography but only remotely linked to religious beliefs. Meanwhile, Dwight Perkins examines the impact of culture in business transactions: whereas the West relies on the rule of law backed up by a judiciary, Asia has tended to rely on personal, often family-based, relationships. For Perkins, any institutional practice can work if economic development takes off -- but rule-based systems will increasingly prove superior. In the wrong hands, cultural arguments can be ideological weapons. But in exposing the tangle of causality and processes that link culture and economics, these essays put the debate on a constructive path. -- from http://www.foreignaffairs.com (Sep. 26, 2014). No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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