The moral foundations of trust

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The moral foundations of trust

Eric M. Uslaner

Cambridge University Press, 2002

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  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-286) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Moral Foundations of Trust seeks to explain why people place their faith in strangers, and why doing so matters. Trust is a moral value that does not depend upon personal experience or on interacting with people in civic groups or informal socializing. Instead, we learn to trust from our parents, and trust is stable over long periods of time. Trust depends on an optimistic world view: the world is a good place and we can make it better. Trusting people are more likely to give through charity and volunteering. Trusting societies are more likely to redistribute resources from the rich to the poor. Trust has been in decline in the United States for over 30 years. The roots of this decline are traceable to declining optimism and increasing economic inequality, which Uslaner supports by aggregate time series in the United States and cross-sectional data across market economies.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Trust and the good life
  • 2. Strategic trust and moralistic trust
  • 3. Counting (on) trust
  • 4. The root of trust
  • 5. Trust and experience
  • 6. Stability and change in trust
  • 7. Trust and consequences
  • 8. Trust and the democratic temperament
  • Epilogue: trust and the civic community.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA58424593
  • ISBN
    • 0521812135
    • 0521011035
  • LCCN
    2001052721
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 298 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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