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and lobbying draws from Bard Harstad and Jakob Svensson, “Bribes, Lobbying and Development,” CEPR Discussion Paper, 2006; the Center for Responsive Politics ( www.opensecrets.org/lobby/index.php, accessed 07/18/2010); the Center for Responsive Politics, “Banking on Connections,” June 3, 2010; Erich Lichtblau and Edward Wyatt, “Financial Overhaul Bill Poses Big Test for Lobbyists,” New York Times, May 22, 2010; Henrik Kleven, Martin Knudsen, Claus Kreiner, Søren Pedersen, and Emmanuel Saez, “Unwilling or Unable to Cheat? Evidence from a Randomized Tax Audit Experiment in Denmark,” NBER Working Paper, February 2010; Nauro Campos and Francesco Giovannoni, “Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes,” CEPR Discussion Paper, 2008; “Daimler Agrees to Pay $185m After Admitting Bribery,” BBC News, April 1, 2010 (news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/business/8600241.stm, accessed 07/18/2010); and Politische Datensbank ( www.parteispenden.unklarheiten.de/?seite=datenbank_show_k&db_id=25&kat=3&sortierung=start, accessed 07/ 15/2010); and Vanessa Fuhrman and Thomas Catan, “Daimler to Settle with U.S. on Bribes,” Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2010. Tim Groseclose and Jeff Milyo discuss how members of Congress value their seats in “Buying the Bums Out: What’s the Dollar Value of a Seat in Congress?” Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper, 1999.

162-165 What Culture Does: The working habits among daughters of immigrants to the United States are found in Raquel Fernandez, “Women, Work, and Culture,” NBER Working Paper, February 2007. The impact of fines in Israeli day-care centers is discussed in Uri Gneezy and Aldo Rustichini, “A Fine Is a Price,” Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 29, No. 1, January 2000, pp. 1-17. The statistic about Japan’s high prices comes from Robert Lipsey and Birgitta Swedenborg, “Explaining Product Price Differences Across Countries,” NBER Working Paper, July 2007.

165-168 Where Culture Comes From: Discussion of the economic implications of trust draws from Jeff Butler, Paola Giuliano, and Luigi Guiso, “The Right Amount of Trust,” CEPR Discussion Paper, September 2009; and the World Values Survey, 2005-2008 wave (www.wvsevsdb.com/wvs/WVSAnalizeSample.jsp, accessed 07/18/2010). Different views on the deformed lips of Mursi girls are from Mursi Online, Oxford University Department of International Development (www.mursi.org/); and Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales, “Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes?,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 20, Spring 2006, pp. 23-48. The results of experiments using the Ultimatum Game around the world are described in Joseph Heinrich et al., “ ‘Economic Man’ in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 28, 2005, pp. 795-855. The use of myth to manage caribou populations among the Chisasibi is described in Fikret Berkes, Sacred Ecology, 2nd edition (New York: Routledge, 2008), pp. 128-129. Data about cultural proximity between societies that share similar environments is found in Mathias Thoenig, Nicolas Maystre, Jacques Olivier, and Thierry Verdier, “Product-Based Cultural Change: Is the Village Global?,” CEPR Discussion Paper, August 2009. The impact of the choice of economic system on the worldview of East and West Germans is drawn from Alberto Alesina and Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, “Good-bye Lenin (or Not?): The Effect of Communism on People’s Preferences,” NBER Working Paper, October 2005.

168-173 Who Can Afford Animal Rights?: Data on attitudes toward premarital sex are drawn from Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Jeremy Greenwood, and Nezih Guner, “From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and Its Destigmatization,” NBER Working Paper, January 2010; and Kaye Wellings, “Poverty or Promiscuity: Sexual Behaviour in Global Context,” London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, paper presented at the Training Course in Sexual and Reproductive Health Research, Geneva, Switzerland, February 23, 2009. The reasons for England