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To: LindyBill who wrote (131523)8/11/2005 12:46:48 PM
From: JohnM   of 793877
 
All Cultures Are Not Equal
By DAVID BROOKS

I still fail to understand why the NYTimes publishes David Brooks. Bring back Safire.

This one confuses two arguments: that geographically bounded groups have distinct cultures and that those cultures account for their level of economic development. There is in addition, another very large caveat, that it's terribly hard to determine what a "culture" is and just how predictive it is.

But the part I find the most inept is the list of scholars at the bottom. It's fine for Brooks to have some favorite authors but he needs to talk to some serious scholars in the field of cultural geography before listing the serious minds. Sowell doesn't do that kind of work; nor does Banfield; nor Huntington. Weber, we all know, argued the classic Protestant ethic argument which continues to be a source of much debate in several fields (which debate doesn't appear in Brooks' essay).

Post Krugman who knows what he's talking about.
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