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Human nature and the reconstitution of social order by francis fukuyama. He proposes that it is the social capital of a given country or even area within a country that defines how its economy functions. In this challenging book, author francis fukuyama examines the role of trust in economics. Fukuyama argues that only those societies with a high degree of social trust will be able to create the kind of flexible, largescale business organizations that are needed for successful. Fukuyama argues that only those societies with a high degree of social trust will be. The social virtues and the creation of prosperity fukuyama, francis on. 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 21stcentury 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. Francis fukuyama is a senior social scientist at the rand corporation and one of americas most highlyregarded intellectuals. Fukuyama offers a general theory of prosperity that provides provocative answers to certain of the questions he raised in the end of history and the last man 1992. The social virtues and the creation of prosperity, by francis fukuyama. Ill call it social trust, and the person who arguably wrote the book on the subject is francis fukuyama. In his bestselling the end of history and the last man, francis fukuyama. Fukuyama argues that prosperous countries tend to be those where business relations between people can be conducted informally and flexibly on the basis of trust, such as germany, japan, and.