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The Moral Basis of a Backward Society - Banfield, Edward C, and Banfield, Laura Fasano
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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.

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The Moral Basis of a Backward Society 1967, Free Press

ISBN-13: 9780029015100

Trade paperback

Moral Basis of a Backward Society 1958, Free Press

ISBN-13: 9780029015209

Hardcover