Moral Basis of a Backward Society

<b>Looking at how nepotism and family-centric societies sacrifice the public good Edward C. Banfield uses a study of the people of southern Italy to argue how self-interested families can lead to poverty.</b> <p/>Analyzing families in southern Italy in 1955 <i>Moral Basis of a Backward Society </i>discusses how poverty is a result of the inability to trust or associate strongly outside of immediate family. <p/>Challenged and argued for years Edward C. Banfield's study has become accept by many people in the modern age.