Francis Fukuyama

Trust

The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity

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Produktbeschreibung

The bestselling author of The End of History explains the social principles of economic life in the mid-1990s. Francis Fukuyama shows why he believes only those societies with a high degree of social trust will be a ble to creat the organizations needed to compete in the new global economy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Free Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780684825250
• ISBN-10: 0684825252
• Artikelnr.: 21224787

Autorenporträt

Francis Fukuyama, a senior social scientist at the Rand Corporation, lives in McLean, Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Preface
PART I
The Idea of Trust: The Improbable Power of Culture in the Making of
Economic Society
1. On the Human Situation at the End of History
2. The Twenty Percent Solution
3. Scale and Trust
4. Languages of Good and Evil
5. The Social Virtues
6. The Art of Association Around the World
PART II
Low-Trust Societies and the Paradox of Family Values
7. Paths and Detours to Sociability
8. A Loose Tray of Sand
9. The "Buddenbrooks" Phenomenon
10. Italian Confucianism
11. Face-to-Face in France
12. Korea: The Chinese Company Within
PART III
High-Trust Societies and the Challenge of Sustaining Sociability
13. Friction-Free Economies
14. A Block of Granite
15. Sons and Strangers
16. Job of a Lifetime
17. The Money Clique
18. German Giants
19. Weber and Taylor
20. Trust in Teams
21. Insiders and Outsiders
22. The High-Trust Workplace
PART IV
American Society and the Crisis of Trust
23. Eagles Don't Flock -- or Do They?
24. Rugged Conformists
25. Blacks and Asians in America
26. The Vanishing Middle
PART V
Enriching Trust: Combining Traditional Culture and Modern Institutions in
the Twenty-first Century
27. Late Developers
28. Returns to Scale
29. Many Miracles
30. After the End of Social Engineering
31. The Spiritualization of Economic Life
Notes
Bibliography
Index