Moral Basis of a Backward Society
Edward C. Banfield
Barcode 9780029015100
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Release Date: 01/02/1967
Genre: Society & Culture
Label: The Free Press
Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 192
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Looking at how nepotism and family-centric societies sacrifice the public good, Edward C. Banfield uses a study of the people of southern Italy to argue how self-interested families can lead to poverty.
Analyzing families in southern Italy in 1955, Moral Basis of a Backward Society discusses how poverty is a result of the inability to trust or associate strongly outside of immediate family.
Challenged and argued for years, Edward C. Banfield’s study has become accept by many people in the modern age.