Trust

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. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 

Autoreninfo

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