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The Moral Basis of a Backward Society
Edward Banfield's new book is called when race trumps merit and it'll be out everywhere fine books are sold very soon. He follows a kind of the moral attitudes of people in a small Italian village that was I think sometime in the 1950s. Even for someone coming from a lower trust society that that is a kind of an aberration in itself, he says.