Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of ProsperityFree Press, 1995 - 457 páginas 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. 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. |
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... behavior at its core . Current economic discourse needs to recover some of the richness of classical , as opposed to neoclassical , economics , by taking account of how culture shapes all aspects of human behavior , including economic ...
... behavior at its core . Current economic discourse needs to recover some of the richness of classical , as opposed to neoclassical , economics , by taking account of how culture shapes all aspects of human behavior , including economic ...
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... behavior that reflected the values of their WASP backgrounds . They tried to instill in others their own work ethic and discipline , while os- tracizing divorce , adultery , mental illness , alcoholism , not to mention homo- sexuality ...
... behavior that reflected the values of their WASP backgrounds . They tried to instill in others their own work ethic and discipline , while os- tracizing divorce , adultery , mental illness , alcoholism , not to mention homo- sexuality ...
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... Behavior by itself does not tell an outside observer which is the real motive . Sen further argues that users of the ... behavior . There are many societies in which there is the expectation that other people will regularly cheat ...
... Behavior by itself does not tell an outside observer which is the real motive . Sen further argues that users of the ... behavior . There are many societies in which there is the expectation that other people will regularly cheat ...
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On the Human Situation at the End of History | 3 |
PART II | 12 |
The Twenty Percent Solution | 13 |
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