Trust: Making and breaking cooperative relations

by Diego Gambetta

Genres: Psychology

246 pages, Hardcover

First published April 29, 1988

About the author

Diego Gambetta is a Professor of Sociology at Nuffield College of the University of Oxford.

Reviews

[Mark Isaak · Rating 4 out of 5]

The preface explains that this book arose from a series of seminars on the subject of trust, which in turn arose from considering the economic and political problems of Italy. Two of the articles relate specifically to Italy, but their lessons can be generalized. The others still relate, directly or indirectly, to economics and social issues.

There is much good information here, but the book suffers from being too academic and dry. For example, the authors assume that the reader will know French, Latin, and Italian. It could have benefited from more examples and a little less abstract theory.

[Tony · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gambetta, Diego. editor.
full title: Trust: Making and breaking cooperative relations.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988.

Collection of essays includes Pagden, Anthony. “The destruction of trust and its economic consequences in the case of eighteenth-century Naples”

subject: Eighteenth-century Neopolitan philosophers such as Paolo Mattia Doria

[Isaac · Rating 3 out of 5]

Useful collection of essays on trust from the point of view of several disciplines within the humanities.

[Rebecca Radnor · Rating 5 out of 5]

A collection of short articles by various authors on the topic, GREAT book if your a serious student of the issue