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Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations, edited by Diego Gambetta.

This collection was originally published by Basil Blackwell in 1988. The complete text is now available online in Word97/98 and PDF formats. Click on the relevant icons to download the corresponding text. Click on the name of an author for a brief biography, current contact details and relevant subsequent publications. This electronic edition was prepared by Soojin Yu and Edmund Chattoe.

The editor and contributors have decided that the book should be available to download free of charge. One of the original reasons for the volume was to try and understand the difficulties of developing economies, and we therefore feel that the volume should be accessible to scholars and students of less privileged countries. Given that we incurred some cost in producing the digital version, and would like to fund further electronic publishing, we would be grateful if those readers who find the volume of value (and can afford it) would send us a contribution of $10. (Cash would make the administration easier for us.) Please send contributions to: Electronic Publishing, Department of Sociology, Littlegate House, St Ebbes, Oxford, Oxon, OX1 1PT, UK.

Please cite this edition as follows: Gambetta, Diego (ed.) (2000) Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations, electronic edition, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, <http://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/papers/trustbook.html>. The new edition is © 2000, Diego Gambetta. The individual chapters must not be duplicated without the correct citations and should be downloaded only for teaching or personal research purposes. They must not be provided for resale or redistribution. If you want others to make use of this book, please direct them to this page in person.


0. Diego Gambetta pp. vii-x
Foreword (and front matter for print edition)

Part I: Trust Considered

1. Bernard Williams pp. 3-13
Formal Structures and Social Reality

2. Patrick Bateson pp. 14-30
The Biological Evolution of Cooperation and Trust

3. David Good pp. 31-48
Individuals, Interpersonal Relations, and Trust

4. Partha Dasgupta pp. 49-72
Trust as a Commodity

5. John Dunn pp. 73-93
Trust and Political Agency

6. Niklas Luhmann pp. 94-107
Familiarity, Confidence, Trust: Problems and Alternatives

Part II: Trust Observed

7. Geoffrey Hawthorn pp. 111-126
Three Ironies in Trust

8. Anthony Pagden pp. 127-141
The Destruction of Trust and its Economic Consequences in the Case of Eighteenth Century Naples

9. Ernest Gellner pp. 142-157
Trust, Cohesion, and the Social Order

10. Diego Gambetta pp. 158-175
Mafia: The Price of Distrust

11. Keith Hart pp. 176-193
Kinship, Contract, and Trust: the Economic Organization of Migrants in an African City Slum

12. Edward H. Lorenz pp. 194-210
Neither Friends nor Strangers: Informal Networks of Subcontracting in French Industry

Part III: Conclusion

13. Diego Gambetta pp. 213-237
Can We Trust Trust?

- Fiona F. Barr pp. 239-246
Index

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