Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human ProgressProminent 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. |
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DAVID LANDESCulture Makes Almost All the Difference | 2 |
Microeconomics of Prosperity | 14 |
CARLOS ALBERTO MONTANERCulture and the Behavior | 56 |
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