Blaming Islam is Too Easy
February 26, 2002
Jeffrey D. Sach*
*Jeffrey D. Sachs is Galen L. Stone Professor of Economics, and Director of the Center for International Development, Harvard University.
Copyright: Project Syndicate, December 2001
The terrorist attacks in America and the war against the Taleban have incited wide speculation about the relationship between culture and economic development. Most pointedly, is the Islamic world thwarted from modernizing because its cultur |