Culture Matters in Russia-and Everywhere (eBook)

Lawrence Harrison is visiting scholar, retired, at Tufts University’s Fletcher School and author of Jews, Confucians, and Protestants: Cultural Capital and the End of Multiculturalism.Evgeny Yasin is academic supervisor at the National Research University—Higher School of Economics and author of Will Democracy Survive in Russia?

Part One: IntroductionChapter 1: Introduction to the Moscow Symposium Collection, Lawrence HarrisonChapter 2: Transformation of Countries in Transition: Culture and the State, Evgeny YasinPart Two: Regional/Civilizational/National CulturesChapter 3: European Culture: What It Was, Where It Is Going, Josef JoffeChapter 4: Quo Vadis, Latin America? Four Cultural Obstacles to Economic Development, Oscar Árias SánchezChapter 5: Janus in Latin America, Mariano GrondonaChapter 6: How Can African Cultural Capital Prosper?, Daniel Etounga-ManguelleChapter 7: Cultural Stability and Long Run Economic Performance, Deepak LalChapter 8: China’s Quest for a New Cultural Identity from a Confucian Humanistic Perspective, Tu WeimingChapter 9: Economic and Political Development in Slovenia: Betwixt and Between Europe and the Balkans, Katherine TaylorPart Three: Religions and DevelopmentChapter 10: Contemporary Russian Orthodoxy: From the Social Paradoxes to the Cultural Model, Boris KnorreChapter 11: Religious Affiliation and Individual Economic and Political Attitudes in Ukraine, Maria SnegovayaChapter 12: The Cultural Revolution in the Islamic World and What It Means for the Future of Muslim Societies, Pervez HoodbhoyChapter 13: “Creation Theology” in Economics: Several Catholic Traditions, Michael NovakChapter 14: Fight Ethos versus Work Ethos: The Role of the Catholic Church in Fostering Pro-Development Values in Poland, Damian PyrkoszChapter 15: Holy Ghost Fire! Pentecostal Religious Culture in Africa, Rachel Okunubi Part Four: Culture’s Influence on Economic VariablesChapter 16: The Role of Culture in Understanding the Process of Economic and Social Change, Douglass NorthChapter 17: Culture, Cooperation, and Repeated Games, Eric MaskinChapter 18: The Effect of Culture on the Functioning of Institutions: Evidence from European Regions, Mariaflavia Harari and Guido TabelliniChapter 19: Culture and Economic Growth: Getting the Theory Right, William EasterlyChapter 20: An Appraisal of the Cultural Change Institute Factors Typology, Matteo MariniPart Five: Culture, Psychology and EconomicsChapter 21: Cultural Values Influence and Constrain Economic and Social Change, Shalom SchwartzChapter 22: Cognition East and West: Fundamental Differences in Reasoning and Perception, Richard NisbettChapter 23: American Culture and the 2008 Financial Crisis, Geert HofstedeChapter 24: Culture of Horizontality and Personal Autonomy: A Humanistic Approach to Culture Change, Valery Chirkov and Nadezhda LebedevaPart Six: Measuring Culture and Cultural ChangeChapter 25: Measuring Culture and Cultural Change: An Introduction, Ronald InglehartChapter 26: Measuring Cultural Capital and Change: Axiological Diagnosis, Miguel BasáñezChapter 27: Trust and Cultural Change in Argentina: A Latin American Comparison, Marita CarballoPart Seven: The Russian CaseChapter 28: The Economic Wonder: Market and Culture, Oleg ChirkunovChapter 29: “All Are Guilty, Which Means That Nobody Is!”--Continuing the Talk on Progress in Russian Culture, Andrei KonchalovskyChapter 30: Basic Human Values of the Russians: Different from and Similar to Other Europeans, Vladimir Magun and Maksim RudnevChapter 31: Socio-Cultural Modernization in Russia: Norms and Values System Shift, Natalya TikhonovaPart Eight: Promoting Progressive Cultural ChangeChapter 32: The Role of the Family in the Acquisition of Values, Jerome KaganChapter 33: Can Teachers Empower Youth for Democratic Citizenship? Evaluating Civic Education Pedagogies in Mexican Secondary Schools, Fernando Reimers, Maria Elena Ortega, Mariali Cardenas, Armando Estrada, and Emanuel GarzaChapter 34: The Me to Everyone Cable, Reese Schonfeld with Erica ShusasChapter 35: New Occasions Teach New Duties: Social Change and Leadership, Richard Lamm Chapter 36: Economic Policy and Cultural Change, James Fox Chapter 37: Culture and Legal Dogmatism in an Era of Immaterial Wealth: The Case of Latin America, Octavio Sánchez Chapter 38: A Culture of Profitability, Robert Kleinbaum