Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of ProsperityIn 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 21st-century capitalism. In Trust, a penetrating assessment of the emerging global economic order "after History," 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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... sense is restricted to meanings , symbols , values , and ideas and encompasses phenomena like religion and ideology . Geertz's own definition of culture is " an histori- cally , transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols , a ...
... sense is restricted to meanings , symbols , values , and ideas and encompasses phenomena like religion and ideology . Geertz's own definition of culture is " an histori- cally , transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols , a ...
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... sense constituted a defensive bulwark against an arbitrary and rapacious state , and consequently Chinese family busi- nesses instinctively thought of ways of hiding income from the tax collec- tor . The situation is quite different in ...
... sense constituted a defensive bulwark against an arbitrary and rapacious state , and consequently Chinese family busi- nesses instinctively thought of ways of hiding income from the tax collec- tor . The situation is quite different in ...
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... sense of belonging to a distinct cultural group . Both peoples have a reputation for going about their work with great intensity and seriousness ; neither is known either for lightness of touch or a sense of humor . The obsession for ...
... sense of belonging to a distinct cultural group . Both peoples have a reputation for going about their work with great intensity and seriousness ; neither is known either for lightness of touch or a sense of humor . The obsession for ...
Contents
On the Human Situation at the End of History | 3 |
The Twenty Percent Solution | 13 |
Scale and Trust | 23 |
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