Lawrence E. Harrison directed USAID missions in five Latin American countries between 1965 and 1981. He is the author of Underdevelopment Is a State of Mind: The Latin American Case, and was the U.S. member on the Haiti crisis mission of the Organization of American States in 1991 and 1992.

• * Introduction: Progress and Poverty Without Marx Success Stories * Brazil Immigrant Entrepreneurs Drive Growth * Spain: The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution Finally Arrive * Taiwan and Korea: The Entrepreneurial Power of Confucianism * The Japanese Miracle: The Meiji Restoration Shows the Way The Fortunes Of Ethnic Groups In America * The Chinese, the Japanese, and the Koreans * The Mexicans * The Blacks The Erosion Of American Culture * The Fault, Dear Brutus, Is Not in Japan