Culture Matters in Russia-and Everywhere

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 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Moscow Symposium Collection, Lawrence Harrison
Chapter 2: Transformation of Countries in Transition: Culture and the State, Evgeny Yasin
Part 2: Regional/Civilizational/National Cultures
Chapter 3: European Culture: What It Was, Where It Is Going, Josef Joffe
Chapter 4: Quo Vadis, Latin America? Four Cultural Obstacles to Economic Development, Oscar Árias Sánchez
Chapter 5: Janus in Latin America, Mariano Grondona
Chapter 6: How Can African Cultural Capital Prosper?, Daniel Etounga-Manguelle
Chapter 7: Cultural Stability and Long Run Economic Performance, Deepak Lal
Chapter 8: China’s Quest for a New Cultural Identity from a Confucian Humanistic Perspective, Tu Weiming
Chapter 9: Economic and Political Development in Slovenia: Betwixt and Between Europe and the Balkans, Katherine Taylor
Part Three: Religions and Development
Chapter 10: Contemporary Russian Orthodoxy: From the Social Paradoxes to the Cultural Model, Boris Knorre
Chapter 11: Religious Affiliation and Individual Economic and Political Attitudes in Ukraine, Maria Snegovaya
Chapter 12: The Cultural Revolution in the Islamic World and What It Means for the Future of Muslim Societies, Pervez Hoodbhoy
Chapter 13: “Creation Theology” in Economics: Several Catholic Traditions, Michael Novak
Chapter 14: Fight Ethos versus Work Ethos: The Role of the Catholic Church in Fostering Pro-Development Values in Poland, Damian Pyrkosz
Chapter 15: Holy Ghost Fire! Pentecostal Religious Culture in Africa, Rachel Okunubi
Part Four: Culture’s Influence on Economic Variables
Chapter 16: The Role of Culture in Understanding the Process of Economic and Social Change, Douglass North
Chapter 17: Culture, Cooperation, and Repeated Games, Eric Maskin
Chapter 18: The Effect of Culture on the Functioning of Institutions: Evidence from European Regions, Mariaflavia Harari and Guido Tabellini
Chapter 19: Culture and Economic Growth: Getting the Theory Right, William Easterly
Chapter 20: An Appraisal of the Cultural Change Institute Factors Typology, Matteo Marini
Part Five: Culture, Psychology and Economics
Chapter 21: Cultural Values Influence and Constrain Economic and Social Change, Shalom Schwartz
Chapter 22: Cognition East and West: Fundamental Differences in Reasoning and Perception, Richard Nisbett
Chapter 23: American Culture and the 2008 Financial Crisis, Geert Hofstede
Chapter 24: Culture of Horizontality and Personal Autonomy: A Humanistic Approach to Culture Change, Valery Chirkov and Nadezhda Lebedeva
Part Six: Measuring Culture and Cultural Change
Chapter 25: Measuring Culture and Cultural Change: An Introduction, Ronald Inglehart
Chapter 26: Measuring Cultural Capital and Change: Axiological Diagnosis, Miguel Basáñez
Chapter 27: Trust and Cultural Change in Argentina: A Latin American Comparison, Marita Carballo
Part Seven: The Russian Case
Chapter 28: The Economic Wonder: Market and Culture, Oleg Chirkunov
Chapter 29: “All Are Guilty, Which Means That Nobody Is!”--Continuing the Talk on Progress in Russian Culture, Andrei Konchalovsky
Chapter 30: Basic Human Values of the Russians: Different from and Similar to Other Europeans, Vladimir Magun and Maksim Rudnev
Chapter 31: Socio-Cultural Modernization in Russia: Norms and Values System Shift, Natalya Tikhonova
Part Eight: Promoting Progressive Cultural Change
Chapter 32: The Role of the Family in the Acquisition of Values, Jerome Kagan
Chapter 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 Garza
Chapter 34: The Me to Everyone Cable, Reese Schonfeld with Erica Shusas
Chapter 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