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Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. Edited by Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P Huntington. Boulder, CO: Basic Books, 2001. Pp.384. 12.99/$18. ISBN 0 465 031765
Lawrence E. Harrison (an associate at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and the author of the influential Underdevelopment is a State of Mind (1985)) and Samuel P. Huntington (the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University and the author of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)) appear to have made significant strides in explaining the role of culture in the development process of Third World nations in their nuanced and ground-breaking new book Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. Comprising a multitude of articles created by prominent scholars from around the world following a symposium at Harvard in the summer of 1998 entitled `Cultural Values and Human Progress% Harrison and Huntington provide their readers with competing theories of how the plethora of world cultures and values have affected the diverse array of developing nations of the world in their quest to `catch up' with the West since their decolonisation after the...