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Social Traps and the Problem of Trust

Social Traps and the Problem of Trust

Hardcover

Series: Theories of Institutional Design

General Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0521848296
ISBN13: 9780521848299
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 6 2005
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.59
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
Bo Rothstein explores how social capital and social trust are generated and what governments can do about it. A 'social trap' is a situation where individuals, groups or organizations are unable to cooperate owing to mutual distrust and lack of social capital, even where cooperation would benefit all. Examples include civil strife, pervasive corruption, ethnic discrimination, depletion of natural resources and misuse of social insurance systems. Much has been written attempting to explain the problem, but rather less material is available on how to escape it.

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