East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.

In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy

If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.