Move UP: Why Some Cultures Advance While Others Don't

Move UP: Why Some Cultures Advance While Others Don't by Rapaille, Clotaire. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780241186992.

An irreverent and controversial examination of why some nations succeed that will overturn all received wisdom With an abundance of data and evidence, Move UP explores the societal and biological factors that determine whether cultures are able to ascend socially, economically, and intellectually. This provocative, ambitious, and entertaining book devises a formula that will allow countries and individuals to assess their own potential for upward mobility. Drawing on science and statistics as much as on human instinct and emotion, Move UP reconsiders the modern world with a motion to improving it.