Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress

An important look at why some countries and ethnic groups are better off than others, and the role that cultural values play in the shaping of nations' and peoples' political, economic and social performance

Lance Morrow

A fascinating book. Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress proclaims the secret in its title and, in a series of twenty-two essays by scholars, journalists, and global-business experts, studies the record of societies' success and failures in the light of their cultural inheritances and internalized mental models.—Time

Lawrence E. Harrison directed USAID missions in five Latin American countries between 1965 and 1981. He is the author of Underdevelopment Is a State of Mind: The Latin American Case, and was the U.S. member on the Haiti crisis mission of the Organization of American States in 1991 and 1992. Lawrence E. Harrison is a senior fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and the author of Who Prospers? and The Pan-American Dream.Samuel P. Huntington is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor of Government at Harvard University and the author of The Clash of Civilizations and The Remaking of the World Order.