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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... larger than those of Hong Kong , and fifty times larger than those of Taiwan . One might object that while Japanese companies are much larger , on average , than Chinese ones , they are not large in a broader global comparison . Table 1 ...
... larger than those of Hong Kong , and fifty times larger than those of Taiwan . One might object that while Japanese companies are much larger , on average , than Chinese ones , they are not large in a broader global comparison . Table 1 ...
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... larger financial institutions , and the freight they carried unified markets over larger and larger areas . Unlike earlier family - run businesses , managed on a hub - and - spoke system with the founding entrepreneur at the center ...
... larger financial institutions , and the freight they carried unified markets over larger and larger areas . Unlike earlier family - run businesses , managed on a hub - and - spoke system with the founding entrepreneur at the center ...
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... larger economies will produce larger firms . There is obviously some correlation between level of development and firm size , but it tends to break down for the cases we have studied . The lack of correlation between absolute GDP and ...
... larger economies will produce larger firms . There is obviously some correlation between level of development and firm size , but it tends to break down for the cases we have studied . The lack of correlation between absolute GDP and ...
Contents
On the Human Situation at the End of History | 3 |
PART II | 12 |
The Twenty Percent Solution | 13 |
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