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The great disruption : human nature and the reconstitution of social order / Francis Fukuyama.

Fukuyama, Francis. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0684865777
ISBN: 9780684865775
Physical Description: xii, 354 p. ; 25 cm.
Publisher: New York : A Touchstone Book , 2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-344) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I. The great disruption -- Playung by the rules -- Crime, family, trust: what happened -- Causes: the conventional wisdom -- Causes: demographic, economic, and cultural -- The special role of women -- Consequences of the great disruption -- Was the great disruption inevitable? -- Part II. On the genealogy of morals -- Where do norms come from? -- Human nature and social order -- The origins of cooperation -- Self-organization -- Technology, networks, and social capital -- The limits of spontaneity and the inevitability of hierarchy -- Beyond cave 76 -- Part III. The great reconstruction -- Does capitalism deplete social capital? -- Reconstructions past, oresent, and future -- Appendix: additional data and sources.