Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of ProsperityFree Press, 1995 - 480 páginas From the bestselling author of The End of History and the Last of Men comes a penetrating assessment of the emerging global economic order, arguing that a nation's social unity depends on its economic strength—and America is at risk for losing both. In his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of twenty-first century capitalism. In Trust, he explains the social principles of economic life and tells us what we need to know to win the coming struggle for world dominance. Challenging orthodoxies of both the left and right, Fukuyama examines a wide range of national cultures in order to divine the underlying principles that foster social and economic prosperity. Insisting that we cannot divorce economic life from cultural life, he contends that in an era when social capital may be as important as physical capital, only those societies with a high degree of social trust will be able to create the flexible, large-scale business organizations that are needed to compete in the new global economy. A brilliant study of the interconnectedness of economic life with cultural life, Trust is also an essential antidote to the increasing drift of American culture into extreme forms of individualism, which, if unchecked, will have dire consequences for the nation's economic health. |
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... Confucianism , with the latter's millennia - old imperative to have many sons.1 But the communists vastly underestimated the staying power of Con- fucian culture and the Chinese family , the latter of which emerged from the past half ...
... Confucianism , with the latter's millennia - old imperative to have many sons.1 But the communists vastly underestimated the staying power of Con- fucian culture and the Chinese family , the latter of which emerged from the past half ...
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... Confucianism , however , has virtually disap- peared from the scene . The last Chinese dynasty was overthrown in 1911 and the imperial bureaucracy abolished . Although various generalissimos and commissars have been compared to emperors ...
... Confucianism , however , has virtually disap- peared from the scene . The last Chinese dynasty was overthrown in 1911 and the imperial bureaucracy abolished . Although various generalissimos and commissars have been compared to emperors ...
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... Confucianism , the Japanese were careful not to have its political dictates impinge on the prerogatives of the emperor and the political ruling class . Moreover , those at the apex of the Japanese political system have tended to be ...
... Confucianism , the Japanese were careful not to have its political dictates impinge on the prerogatives of the emperor and the political ruling class . Moreover , those at the apex of the Japanese political system have tended to be ...
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On the Human Situation at the End of History | 3 |
The Twenty Percent Solution | 13 |
Scale and Trust | 23 |
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