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Author Fukuyama, Francis.

Title Trust : the social virtues and the creation of prosperity / Francis Fukuyama
Published London : Hamish Hamilton, 1995
1995

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Description xv, 457 pages ; 25 cm
Contents The idea of trust: the improbable power of culture in the making of economic society -- Low-trust societies and the paradox of family values -- High-trust societies and the challenge of sustaining sociability -- American society and the crisis of trust -- Enriching trust: combining traditional culture and modern institutions in the twenty-first century
Summary The greatness of this country, he maintains, was built not on its imagined ethos of individualism but on the cohesiveness of its civil associations and the strength of its communities. But Fukuyama warns that our drift into a more and more extreme rights-centered individualism - a radical departure from our past communitarian tradition - holds more peril for the future of America than any competition from abroad
In Trust, a sweeping assessment of the emerging global economic order "after History," Fukuyama examines a wide range of national cultures in order to divine the hidden principles that make a good and prosperous society, and his findings strongly challenge the orthodoxies of both left and right. In fact, economic life is pervaded by culture and depends, Fukuyama maintains, on moral bonds of social trust. This is the unspoken, unwritten bond between fellow citizens that facilitates transactions, empowers individual creativity, and justifies collective action. In the global struggle for economic predominance that is now upon us - a struggle in which cultural differences will become the chief determinant of national success - the social capital represented by trust will be as important as physical capital. But trust varies greatly from one society to another, and a map of how social capital is distributed around the world yields many surprises
Analysis Cultural values
Economic conditions
Economic systems
Morals
Overseas item
Psychology
Social values
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-441) and index
Subject Economic history -- 1945-
Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Trust.
Virtue.
LC no. 95019320
ISBN 0241133769
Other Titles Social virtues and the creation of prosperity