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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... central Italy has been critical in explaining their greater economic prosperity . Robert Putnam is certainly correct in saying that economics does not pre- dict the degree of spontaneous sociability ( or , in his terminology , civic ...
... central Italy has been critical in explaining their greater economic prosperity . Robert Putnam is certainly correct in saying that economics does not pre- dict the degree of spontaneous sociability ( or , in his terminology , civic ...
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... central Italy and put a distinctive stamp on business life there , without simultaneously undermining the sense of broader civic community in the political realm . That is , there is no necessary trade - off between strong families and ...
... central Italy and put a distinctive stamp on business life there , without simultaneously undermining the sense of broader civic community in the political realm . That is , there is no necessary trade - off between strong families and ...
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... central Italy was the insti- tution of sharecropping there.30 Sharecropping was based on a long - term contract between the landowner and the head of a family , who con- tracted on behalf of the other family members . The landowner had ...
... central Italy was the insti- tution of sharecropping there.30 Sharecropping was based on a long - term contract between the landowner and the head of a family , who con- tracted on behalf of the other family members . The landowner had ...
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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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