Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of ProsperityIn 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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... strong . What existed , such as the small private sector and social structures like the peasant commune , or mir , were ruthlessly eradicated . By the time of Stalin's consolidation of power in the late 1930s , the So- viet Union ...
... strong . What existed , such as the small private sector and social structures like the peasant commune , or mir , were ruthlessly eradicated . By the time of Stalin's consolidation of power in the late 1930s , the So- viet Union ...
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... strong families and strong voluntary associations in this part of Italy ; both can be cohesive simultaneously , just as both can be weak in other societies . There is indeed some evidence for the latter thesis . Familism remains a more ...
... strong families and strong voluntary associations in this part of Italy ; both can be cohesive simultaneously , just as both can be weak in other societies . There is indeed some evidence for the latter thesis . Familism remains a more ...
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... strong degree of social pressure to take care of their employees by giving them the skills to make them employ- able . Companies that fail to do this face ostracism and would not have the same kind of trust relationship with their ...
... strong degree of social pressure to take care of their employees by giving them the skills to make them employ- able . Companies that fail to do this face ostracism and would not have the same kind of trust relationship with their ...
Contents
On the Human Situation at the End of History | 3 |
PART II | 12 |
The Twenty Percent Solution | 13 |
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