Development vs moral values


A private residential complex (centre), stands among public housing buildings in the Toa Payoh district of Singapore in this file photo. Haidt has found that as countries move from an agriculture-based economy towards industrialisation, they gravitate toward secularism.

As countries move from an agriculture-based economy towards industrialisation, they gravitate toward secularism.

ECONOMISTS and historians have told the story of development, but social scientist and author Jonathan Haidt thinks a lot of it is psychological as well.

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