be as an instrument of development (or an obstacle to development), cannot ultimately be reduced to a subsidiary position as a mere promoter of (or an impediment to) economic growth. Culture’s role is not exhausted as a servant of ends – though in a narrower sense of the concept this is one of its roles – but is the social basis of the ends themselves."
Our Creative Diversity
the Report of the World Commission on Culture and Development, a.k.a. Pérez de Cuéllar
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