Trust : making and breaking cooperative relations
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Trust : making and breaking cooperative relations
B. Blackwell, 1990
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
A collection of essays examining the idea of trust from the standpoint of different disciplines. The contributors, drawn from Europe, Britain and the USA, aim to provide illuminating insights into how "trust" is variously regarded in the world of scholarship.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Trust considered: formal structures and social reality, Bernard Williams
- the biological evolution of co-operation and trust, Patrick Bateson
- individuals, interpersonal relations and trust, David Good
- trust as a commodity, Partha Dasgupta
- trust and political agency, John Dunn
- familiarity, confidence, trust - problems and alternatives, Niklas Luhmann. Part 2 Trust observed: three ironies in trust, Geoffrey Hawthorn
- the distraction of trust and its economic consequences in the case of 18th-century Naples, Anthony Pagden
- trust, cohesion and the social order, Ernest Gellner
- mafia - the price of distrust, Diego Gambetta
- kinship, contract and trust - the economic organization of migrants in an African city slum, Keith Hart
- neither friends nor strangers - informal networks of subcontracting in French industry, Edward Lorenz.
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