I. Culture and Economic Development 1. David Landes Culture Makes Almost All the Difference 2. Michael E. Porter Attitudes, Values, Beliefs, and the Microeconomics of Prosperity 3. Jeffrey Sachs Notes on a New Sociology of Economic Development 4. Mariano Grondona A cultural Typology of Economic Development 5. Carlos Alberto Montaner Culture and the Behavior of Elites in Latin America 6. Daniel Etounga-Manguelle Does Africa Need a Cultural Adjustment II. Culture and Political Development 7. Ronald Inglehart Culture and Democracy 8. Francis Fukuyama Social Capital 9. Seymour martin Lipset and Gabriel Salman Lenz Corruption, Culture, and the Markets III. The Anthropological Debate 10. Robert B. Edgerton Traditional Beliefs and PracticesAre Some Better than Others 11. Thomas S. Weisner Culture, Childhood, and Progress in Sub-Saharan Africa 12. Richard A. Shweder moral Maps, "First World" Conceits, and the New Evangelists IV. Culture and Gender 13. Barbara Crossette Culture, Gender and Human Rights 14. Mala Htun Culture, Institutions, and Gender Inequality in Latin America V. Culture and American Minorities 15. Orlando Patterson Taking Culture Seriously: A Framework and an Afro-American Illustration 16. Nathan Glazer Disaggregating Culture VI. The Asian Crisis 17. Dwight H. Perkins law, Family Ties and the Eastern Asian Way of Business 18. Lucian W. Pye "Asian Values": From Dynamos to Dominoes? 19. Tu Wei-Ming Multiple Modernities: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Implications of East Asian Modernity VII. Promoting Change 20. Michael Fairbanks Changing the Mind of a Nation: Elements in a Process for Creating Prosperity 21. Stace Lindsay Culture, Mental Models, and National Prosperity 22. Lawrence E. Harrison Promoting Progressive Cultural Change.