A review of Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, by Francis Fukuyama.
About the Author
S. Gordon Redding, Poon Kam Kai Professor of Management Studies at the University of Hong Kong, is the author of The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism (1990).
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