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.
Huntington, Samuel P. : Harvard University
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.
Review
"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."
--Lance Morrow, Time
"Offers hope of an important countercurrent to today's received wisdom about poverty and the fate of ethnic
minorities."
--Tamar Jacoby, Wall Street Journal
"In exposing the tangle of causality and processes that link culture and economics, these essays put the debate
on a constructive path."
--Foreign Affairs
"...an exceedingly rich collection�"
--H-Net
Perseus Books Group Publisher Web Site, May, 2002.
Summary
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.
