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In 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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I thought this was dazzlingly brilliant..........2006-01-07
Fukuyama outlines how the "intermediate social organizations" of society, under the Protestant ethic, permitted the development of modern capitalist structures; whereas in low-trust societies (where you cannot depend on the corresponding person to trust you, or you to trust him), only family oriented businesses could grow, and inevitably collapsed after the second or third generation. He links the development of these intermediate organizations--guilds, PTAs, unions, volunteer activities--to the social fabric that engendered trust. He comments that a country can "spend" this hard-to-develop social capital and eventually become a rigid, non-trusting, and economically backward state. Furthermore, Fukuyama points out that the United States probably is doing just that, in nearly all intermediate social organizations, which are now surrounded by litigious critics--the educational system, Boy Scouts, union-management conflicts, the Catholic Church (which has never trusted its parishioners to have other than the standard orthodoxy, and now has suffered enormous scandal), and so forth. The lack of trust in our country is seen as pointing to our economic future, whether for good or bad.
Fukuyama is a genuinely interesting and informative writer. In his sense of fairness, he also points to examples where trust is generated, and cites them as necessary for a country to make both social and economic progress. I really enjoyed the multiple perspectives that the author brings to his task of explaining how some countries are prosperous, and some are not. He is truly an innovative thinker.
Before you read the reviews look at the section above called "Customers who viewed this book also viewed" you will gain insigh .......2005-08-14
This book was written ( I bet)by unpaid graduate assistants. I borrowed it from the library to read before mr Fukuyama's arrival to speak at a university.
The book was "written to order" to appeal to American conservatives. If Mr Fukuyama had really wanted to write about the construction/maintenance/increasing/decreasing of TRUST he could not have pointedly ignored the European Union. Nations and peoples with a thousand or more years of organised warfare are now at peace and trying to work together now that's an exercise in TRUST BUILDING.
I asked Mr Fukuyama why, as the book doesn't have America in the title, did he only mention distrust in medieval Italy and not the phenominal TRUST required to bring Germans, Brits and the French together. His reply "Oh .. people always want me to talk about their country. Next question." well!....
I feel that this book is a dis service to Americans because as with so many political/cultural and economic books from the USA what is left out of the book adds to the hurly burly spiral of disinformation accepted as the truth about the world by many Americans and esp. uncrital conservatives. I am, of course by my own reckoning, a conservative - a mixed economy democratic christian from the U.K.(OK OK New Labour) So I am not hostile to the US, but this type of book and the supportive reviews sadden me. Good luck America and PLEASE read wider and TRAVEL!
Racism and religious bigotry masquerading as science.......2005-03-15
Fukuyama trots out stereotypes that he must have picked up at his Japanese-Protestant father's knee, under a thick veneer of impenetrable sociological jargon that can fool the occasional reader into believing that this is an impartial scientist at work. Like all stereotypes, Fukuyama's are a blend of breathtaking overgeneralizations, and huge blind spots. And, like all stereotypes, they are utter nonsense.
The book attempts to update Max Weber's "Protestant ethic" story to include some non-Christian societies. The basic argument of the book is that Catholics are unable to trust people outside their immediate family, and so unable to form associations that are not based on family ties. The same is true of the Chinese, claims Fukuyama. These are the Catholics of the Orient.
The Japanese and Protestants are able to transcend family ties and therefore form a vast range of associations that do not have a genetic basis, especially large professionally managed corporations.
The feckless Catholics and Chinese however are doomed to form business enterprises that can never be more than over-grown Mom and Pop operations. Fukuyama therefore has a gloomy prognosis for the economic miracles of China or Taiwan or Singapore--however brilliant a businessman Pop or Mom may be, sooner or later Paris Hilton will be minding the store.
There is an interesting chapter on Korea, where Fukuyama is at pains to show that however like wannabe Japanese/Protestants Korean business organizations may seem, they are really Chinese/Catholic at heart.
The book's thesis is obvious nonsense. Dramatic counter-examples exist, such as the Chinese Communist Party or the Jesuits. Also, the broad idea that Catholicism or Chinese-ness contributes to poverty lacks a statistical basis.
I saw a recent article about thousands of Japanese orphans in China who were taken in and looked after by Chinese families after Japan's World War II defeat. Rather surprising behavior in this "low-trust" society! Perhaps these Chinese had been somewhat civilized by the high-trust ways of the occupying Japanese.
underrated despite being an oversimplification.......2004-11-12
I live in Europe close to the fault line between (in Fukuyama-speak) low-trust-land and high-trust-land and I have rarely read such an interesting book. In some ways the book is the successor to Max Weber's magnum opus, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (published in 1905) about the impact of protestant religion and culture on economical success in Germany.
Rather than compare Protestantism with Catholicism and their economical impact on German citizens, Fukuyama divides the world into high and low trust societies. Within Europe low trust societies largely coincide with Catholic countries and high trust societies coincide largely with Protestant countries, hence some of Fukuyama's work will sound familiar at times to a reader of Max Weber. Still, Fukuyama's categorisation is not based per se on religious affiliation. Fukuyama is at pains to attribute the low trust of Italians or French to historical events or situations. At times it seems he goes out of his way to avoid attributing any causal role to religion. But the advantage of his approach is that his methodology in theory works in any culture outside the European Christian context. Fukuyama also applies his trust criterion on societies such as the US, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China. The Middle East and Africa are conspicuous in their absence, possibly because there are few if any examples of so-called high-trust cultures in these parts of the world.
There are a few shortcomings to the book :
Fukuyama only draws economical consequences from the presence or absence of trust, for instance, he claims high trust cultures such as Japan and Germany find it easier to form very large companies, whilst low trust cultures such as Taiwan or Italy feel more at home in family companies. It is a pity he does not extend the field of study of consequences into areas such as corruption (low trust countries generally score higher on corruption), the law (for instance perjury is not regarded as a big deal in low trust countries), demographics (intermarriage, such as consanguineous marriages, is much more common in low trust cultures such as in the Middle East), etc...
The division of the world by Fukuyama into low and high trust cultures is very binary. Some studies by others into trust have first segmented the environment of individuals in concentric layers, starting with the immediate family, then friends, then the extended family, then the local community, then the country and then his or her civilisation. In such a scenario trust typically decreases with each layer which is further removed from the individual (although there are exceptions, such as in failed Islamic states where more trust is put by individuals in the Umma - all Muslims - than in the nation.), but the slope of the curve differs between low and high trust cultures. Still, as a simplification, the division into two extremes of trust is an interesting start.
Like all human phenomena, economic organisation can never be explained by one variable. But even if trust turns out to be only one of the variables which have a high correlation with economic structure, it remains a valid subject for a book like this.
Finally, some reviewers have accused Fukuyama of explicitly arguing that economic development is hampered by low trust, whilst I think he actually argues economic structures are merely different in both categories. Nobody will argue Belgium, a typical low-trust culture, is poorer in GDP per capita terms than - say - the neighboring Netherlands, a typical high trust culture that even shares its language with the majority of Belgians. But it is true that Belgian multinational companies are even rarer than famous Belgians.
Despite the simplifications this is still a very interesting book for those interested in the compatibilities or incompatibilities of cultures in the workplace. One of Fukuyama's underrated books.
Trust!.......2003-06-14
Summary:
The author claims in his chapter, Friction-Free Economies, that it is necessary to turn to a cultural characteristic like spontaneous sociability to explain the existence of large-scale corporations in an economy, or prosperity more generally. The question of spontaneous sociability is particularly important because we cannot take the older ethical habits for granted. A rich and complex civil society does not arise inevitably out of the logic of the advance of industrialization. On the contrary, Japan, Germany, and the United States became the world¡¯s leading industrial leaders in large part because they had healthy endowments of social capital and spontaneous sociability, and not vice versa. Also, the author emphasizes on the economic function of trust and spontaneous sociability. If we presume that if legal institutions exist, the presence of a high degree of trust as an additional condition of economic relations can increase economic efficiency by reducing what economists call transaction costs, incurred by activities like finding the appropriate buyer or seller, negotiating a contract, complying with government regulations and enforcing contracts.
In conclusion, traditional sociability can be said to be loyalty to older, long-established social groups. By contrast, spontaneous sociability is the ability to come together and cohere in new groups, and to thrive in innovative organizational settings. Spontaneous sociability is likely to be helpful from an economic standpoint only if it is used to build wealth-creating economic organization. Traditional sociability, on the other hand, can frequently be an obstacle to growth.
Critique 1:
In the article, the writer talks about the free rider problem. It is said that when a country which has communal solidarity, people will get resources without contributing to society as much as others. The solution, suggested by the writer, is to designate the work in unit base. And, the writer cited a successful example of Mao¡¯s policy, a famous Chinese leader, towards peasants. However, nowadays, it seems that it is more difficult to prevent such problems as the relationship between people become more and more indispensable. It is difficult to delimit the job by unit clearly as what was done in agricultural society in the past.
Moreover, there is no perfect government policy in the world as it is impossible to balance all the interests equally among people. For example, the free rider phenomenon is serious in some countries. In some cases in Hong Kong, the free riders are getting the government¡¯s subsidy without contributing to the society. Especially, during the economic depression, people are in hard time and the government tries to help them by providing subsidy to the public. However, in some cases, the subsidy fund for a family provided by the government is similar to the salary during an economic depression. Therefore, many people select not to work which can be said to be a kind of free rider. Even through it is known by the government, it is unpreventable. Therefore, nowadays, the free rider problem is not easy to combat with.
Critique 2:
In this article, author mentions about the economic function of trust and spontaneous sociability. It is right that a high degree of trust can increase economic efficiency and reduce transaction costs comparatively. But, in my point of view, it doesn¡¯t mean the companies can get great benefit and guarantee from the high degree of trust, their gains are very limited. In economic activities, we should take a minimal level of trust and honesty for every economic partner, even the companies which have good relation and cooperative experience with us. Business is business. When you choose high trust in appearance, actually, you are also taking high risk in disappearance stealthily. Because all the economic activities only focus on one goal-benefits.
As the author mentions, societies manifesting a high degree of communal solidarity and shared moral value should be more economically efficient than their more individualistic counterparts. This is due to the ¡°free riders¡± problem. This kind of problems cannot be avoided. The greater organizations become, the greater the tendency of ¡°free rider¡± is. Why it happens? One reason is those organizations¡¯ benefits or efforts are most influence or control, and in the organizations, his or her individual benefits or efforts are ignored. We can see, in a small group, because the group members are highly dependent on one another, and, also when a single partner slack off, which will be noticed immediately by colleagues. So, I think, it needs kinds of high degree of trust and solidarity in a group. Moreover, it would be helpful to put the organization and an individual interest together, create member¡¯s self-motive, and enact proper roles are also good methods to limit free rider in the group.
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Trust: The Social Virtues & the Creation of Prosperity
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Title: The two Fukuyamas.(America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy)(The End of History and the Last Man)(Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity)(Book review)
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Decent, but "Marco Pantani: The Legend of a Tragic Champion" is better.......2006-04-07
I think the phrase, lost in translation, applies to this book. I waited months for it to be sent after I pre-ordered it. It was available in Europe at the beginning of the year, but that's ok, they were probably translating it. Unfortunately, it "feels" very translated, if that makes sense.
While I appreciate the insight from Ronchi because she was someone who was very close to Pantani and obviously tried to help him, at times I felt like it was her just justifying her actions to the world with a series of choppy responses to criticisms that were made about her part in his life.
My feeling at the end of the book; it rambled, that's how I felt. BUT, there was no way I was not going to buy this book because as a cycling fan, Pantani was one of the unique talents from the recent batch. If only he could have straightened himself out, he would have given Lance some serious competition in the mountains during his other tour wins. This guy won 2 major stage races in 1998, the Giro and the Tour de France, beating Julich, Ulrich and other prominent riders at the time. He was on course to do it again in 1999, but a test registered a high Hemocrit level (same thing we are seeing today with top stars)the night before his Giro win. It really was all down hill from there.
On a side note, I seriously wonder about these tests. One has to ask why would someone at the top of their game risk cheating when they know they are in the most highly tested sport in the world. I am thinking about Tyler Hamilton and Roberto Heras. Barry Bonds admits to steroid use but is still in baseball? Cyclists take a substance that is used for treating Anemia and they are vilified. (back off my soap box)
The book by John Wilcockson, Marco Pantani: The Legend of a Tragic Champion was much better written, researched, put together, etc. It is a different perspective, that of a reporter, but this guy has been on the cycling scene forever, knows all the big names personally and just has a real historical perspective about him. His book on following Lance in his tour victory, stage by stage, 23 days in July was also outstanding.
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This book blends highly readable personal accounts with essential statistics on climate, cost of living, taxes, housing costs, crime rates, and health care.
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BETTER CHOCIES AVAILABLE.......2007-10-13
While interesting this book leaves a little to be desired. A Better choice would be the newest edition of PLACES RATED.
How do you rate a place?.......2006-06-25
Some towns seem to have a permanent place on the sweetheart lists of books dedicated to relocation and retirement. It is unusual to see such books without Charlottesville, Virginia, Branson, Missouri or Grand Junction, Colorado and indeed these locales, along with 97 others, fill the pages of AMERICA'S 100 BEST PLACES TO RETIRE.
This is a helpful book, but not an indispensable one. A good half of the towns or counties listed here are also in the 203-item RETIREMENT PLACES RATED (2004), which uses statistics far more than AMERICA'S 100, and generates competitive rankings. AMERICA'S 100 does, though, look at its places in a great deal more detail. An info box in each chapter, alphabetized by town name, offers brief stats as to climate, hospital beds, major housing developments and the like, as well as contact lists for the various Chambers of Commerce or whatever other agency is responsible for promoting each place. This brings in some objective data into what otherwise is a subjective process.
But the bulk of each chapter is given up to a narrative description of each particular place's "vibe" and a series of interiews with residents who relocated there either in middle age or during retirement. These are almost always middle-class couples with enough money to spend on middle-rank (or above) housing, or the wherewithal to build their own. Those interviewed will be a mix of people from the same region and those from far away, who fell across their new communities through a combination of research, personal recommendations, and plain old serendipity--stumbling across it on vacation, say. Together with the info box, such narrative discussions average three pages per town, or the equivalent of a medium-sized magazine article (no photos, though). I did feel, though, that many of these (admittedly subjective) town descriptions were quite boosterish; if any of these places is saddled with a rotten economy or a soaring crime rate, you're not likely to hear about it here.
Perhaps the most useful--or at least most enjoyable--aspect of AMERICA'S 100 is its listing of ten "Top 10" towns from its ranking, using categories such as "Best Budget Towns," "Best Beach Towns," "Best College Towns," and so on.
One caveat--America teems with the retired and soon-to-be retired. Therefore the housing costs in this book, which are at least four years old, may be fairly on the mark in some instances but woefully understated in others. One solution is to contact the chamber of commerce listings, where your address will inevitably be passed on to local realtors, most of whom belong to the local C of C. AMERICA'S 100 doesn't overwhelm the reader with its number of locations or hard data, but it does its best to convey the real feeling, the experience of living in each place.
100 Best Places to Retire.......2006-02-27
Excellent referral information and explicit for cost, weather, local features, and amenities
Left a little to be desired.......2006-02-17
This book could have done a little better job in giving information. If you were interested only in the best places to retire in order it is good. However, I would have liked more information than what was given.
I have found this book less than useful.......2005-04-27
I have owned two books on "places to live" -- this one on retirement and another on general living areas, thus I have a good basis for comparison. This book on retirement is mostly anecdotal and insufficient to make an adequate factual comparison among the various cities and towns. Why did the editor leave out the average cost of living for several of these cities, for example? My other book had numerical ratings for all sorts of critically important categories like weather, access to colleges and universities, health care and hospitals (public and private), public transportation, indoor and outdoor recreation, the arts, state sales taxes, state income taxes, property taxes, housing costs, general cost of living, etc. The editor of this book includes some of this information but it is not consistent and not in any type of graphical or rating form so it is impossible to compare the various cities, which is what we are inclined to do if we are choosing some place to retire. Another caveat: I think every book on retirement should have big bold letters printed on the cover, in red: WARNING!! NEVER COMMIT TO A NEW CITY UNLESS YOU RENT THERE FOR AT LEAST SIX MONTHS!! Based on just a few vacation visits to our chosen retirement town, plus information from this book, we spent two months renting, found and bought a house and have regretted it ever since. The glowing and gushing tales quoted about city and town life from every corner of the country in this book can be countered by equally dark tales of horror (we have more than a few about Whidbey Island, WA). So do you see why I think those human interest stories that fill the book are truly useless in helping you choose your final destination? I also lived for five years in Ojai, CA, one of the editor's favored towns, and I wouldn't want to be buried there, much less step foot there ever again. What is one woman's hell is another's paradise. A book of dull yet solid statistics would have been much more useful, in my humble opinion. Oh, wait, I have just the book you need, easily ordered from Amazon! Try "Cities Ranked & Rated" by Bert Sperling and Peter Sander, 2004. No meaningless subjective blather from gushing residents, just the facts, ma'am. Try it, you'll like it!
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From the editors of Where to Retire magazine, America's most authoritative source of information about retirement towns and developments, comes accurate and reliable help for all those seeking a great new town for retirement. Completely updated, the fourth edition is fact-filled with statistics on population, climate, cost of living, housing costs, taxes, education, transportation, health care and more. Because facts and figures alone can't capture the beauty, personality or public spirit of a town, there are interviews with people who have relocated to each town, telling what retirement in their new hometown is really like. Included among the 100 are the editor's designations of the nation's 10 best towns for art, lakes, beaches, colleges, mountains, lower-cost living, small towns, undiscovered towns and main streets.
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This book is very helpful.......2007-05-13
Easy read with a lot of good information about various retirement areas. The best information has to do with taxes and health care. I do question why some of the people who already live in one of the 100 best places to retire are highlighted as moving to another one of the best 100 places to retire. It does make one think.
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In depth profiles of the 100 best cities and towns for active and fulfilling retirement lifestyles, as chosen by the editors of Where to Retire magazine.
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Where is the rest?.......2005-06-30
America is the whole Western Hemisphere from Greenland to Argentina. I find it strange that every single one of the top 100 places to retire in America are in the usOFa.
Too much anecdote, not enough facts.......2001-07-19
This book looked rather like the author decided to make a trip around the country and stopped in at a number of towns to interview people. Based on the interview, he decided whether this was a great retirement place. While some statistical facts are presented, there is little to substantiate "Joe and Velma's" statement that "this is a really nice place to live". I know several of the places included and had a great deal of difficulty understanding how some of them got into the book (and why some others were left out).
A fresh start?.......2001-05-19
Good overview of 100 locations picked by logical categories:
Ten best Seaside Ten best lakeside Ten best college town Ten best low cost Ten best mountain, etc.
Naturally there is a great deal of subjectivity: I have always been highly sceptical of the Pseudo-scientific approach taken by the "place rated" books.
Interesting to hear from locals; unfortunately continuity and judgement is lost by using different people for each town.
Useful for anyone planning a retirement move.
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No Place to Run: A True Story (The Library of Holocaust Testimonies)
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The sons thoughts.......2002-10-31
I read this book with intensity, and believe me I don't read very much. I never understood the complexity or the intensity of WWII until I read this book.
I am a navy sailor and I have spent most of my time not realizing what that ment. I read this book after 9/11 and it helped me understand the sevarity of war and how tragic it is.
And even though it might be thought that I have a biased opinion towards my father's book, this is one that you will not put down!
Outstanding.......2002-06-26
Some books of this type are tedious and rehash the same stories of an awful time in our recent history. I began this reading with reservations, but immediately found it not only an easy read but a page turner. Being written in the first person gives life and excitement to what could have been just another story. This book puts you there. You feel their anxiety. You experience their near hopelessness and rejoice in their triumph. This is a must read for anyone.
David Gilbert is a true hero!.......2002-04-04
David's story starts on the day the German army attacked Poland at the beginning of World War II. It chronicles one man's struggle to save his family from the Nazis and the heroic efforts he made to save hundreds of other people in the process. David never stopped believing in life and he never stopped believing in God. Through every twist and turn first, while hiding from the Nazis then in the Warsaw Ghetto and finally in Bergen Belsen his quick thinking kept his family safe.
You will not put this book down until David's final liberation. This book is a tribute to his zest for life. Through all the death and destruction David never lost his faith.
David Gilbert is a true hero. His story makes personal what now seems so far removed. It should be read by all those who want to learn from the inhumanity of the Nazi era. This book should be required high school reading. David's story is about life and one man's triumph over incredible odds.
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No Place to Run
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No place to run
Barbara Murphy
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No Place to Run, No Place to Hide
Esther J. Mathis
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NO PLACE TO RUN.
Manufacturer: Muller
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