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.
- ISBN10 0029015103
- ISBN13 9780029015100
- Publish Date 1 February 1967 (first published December 1958)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint The Free Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 192
- Language English