Culture and Public Action - A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on Development Policy

Zusatztext "This book provides us with valuable insights into the relationship between culture and development, and with practical advice on the implications of this for development policy. It should be read by all who are interested in reducing poverty and deprivation in our increasingly interconnected world." Informationen zum Autor Edited by Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton Klappentext "The observation that cultural norms affect economic development has been made repeatedly, yet it has been very hard to use it effectively, whether for policy or for prediction. The essays in this volume present authoritatively the present state of knowledge and point out new aspects which hold out the prospect of greater usefulness."--Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University, and Winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics "The editors are to be congratulated on having attracted three heavy hitters to their enterprise--Amartya Sen, Mary Douglas, and Arjun Appadurai. And these luminaries have come up with the goods, writing papers any one of which would attract readers. This book will have a diverse readership and it will deserve to do so."--Dr. Keith Hart, University of Aberdeen Zusammenfassung Issues are examined in an inter-disciplinary dialogue between distinguished anthropologists and economists and cover community development, famine relief, fundamentalism, HIV-AIDS, discrimination and heritage.

Product details

• Authors: Vijayendra (EDT)/ Walton Rao, Vijayendra Walton Rao, Michael Rao Walton
• Assisted by: Vijayendra Rao (Editor), Vijayendra (Editor), Walton (Editor), Michael Walton (Editor)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.07.2004
• EAN: 9780804747868
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-4786-8
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Stanford Social Sciences; Stanford Social Sciences
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics