This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development, a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human Progress Symposium at Harvard University. As the sequel to the 2001 volume Culture Matters, it discusses modernization, democratization, economic, and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can happen through the reframing of cultural values, attitudes, and institutions.

(Cover design by Katie Makrie.)

Contributions by: Oscar Árias Sánchez, Miguel Basáñez, Marita Carballo, Valery Chirkov, Oleg Chirkunov, William Easterly, Daniel Etounga-Manguelle, James Fox, Mariano Grondona, Lawrence Harrison, Geert Hofstede, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Ronald Inglehart, Josef Joffe, Jerome Kagan, Irina Karatsuba, Rob Kleinbaum, Borris Knorre, Andrei Konchalovsky, Deepak Lal, Richard Lamm, Nadezhda Lebedeva, Vladimir Magun, Matteo Marini, Eric Maskin, Richard Nisbett, Douglass North, Rachel Okunubi, Fernando Reimers, Maksim Rudnev, Reese Schonfeld, Shalom Schwartz, Maria Snegovaya, Guido Tabellini, Katherine Taylor, Natalya Tikhonova, Tu Weiming, Evgeny Yasin