Robert Klitgaard

The Culture and Development Manifesto

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Around the world, the realities of underdevelopment are harsh and galling, and current strategies are not working well enough or quickly enough. With fascinating examples from around the world, this inspiring "manifesto" shows how to take account of cultural diversity in reshaping economic and political development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780197517741
• ISBN-10: 0197517749
• Artikelnr.: 60142142

Autorenporträt

Robert Klitgaard is a University Professor at Claremont Graduate University, in California. His research and consulting have taken him to more than 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He has been a professor at Harvard, Yale, and the Dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School, America's leading Ph.D. program in policy analysis. Among his ten previous books is Tropical Gangsters, named one of the New York Times' Books of the Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Culture? Development? Manifesto?
2. Is Culture a Key in Development?
3. La Problématique
4. Cultures Approaching Cultures
5. Are the Scientific Problems Too Hard?
6. The Misuses of Culture
7. Cultural Texts
8. Adjusting to Cultures
9. Culture and Corruption
10. Culture and Development Reconsidered
References
Endnotes