Description: The bestselling author of The End of History explains the social principles of economic life in the mid-1990s. Francis Fukuyama shows why he believes only those societies with a high degree of social trust will be a ble to creat the organizations needed to compete in the new global economy.
Brief description: Francis Fukuyama is a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University, and Mosbacher DIrector of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Dr. Fukuyama has written about questions concerning governance, democratization, and international political economy. His book The End of History and the Last Man has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His most recent books are The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, and Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy.
Review Quotes: Robert Kaplan Los Angeles Times Book Review A work of interdisciplinary synthesis that shows a superior mind in action.