The moral foundations of trust, Eric M. Uslaner
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The moral foundations of trust, Eric M. Uslaner
Language
eng
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The moral foundations of trust
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
726823769
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Eric M. Uslaner
Series statement
Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
Summary
The Moral Foundations of Trust seeks to explain why people place their faith in strangers, and why doing so matters. Trust is a moral value that does not depend upon personal experience or on interacting with people in civic groups or informal socializing. Instead, we learn to trust from our parents, and trust is stable over long periods of time. Trust depends on an optimistic world view: the world is a good place and we can make it better. Trusting people are more likely to give through charity and volunteering. Trusting societies are more likely to redistribute resources from the rich to the poor. Trust has been in decline in the United States for over 30 years. The roots of this decline are traceable to declining optimism and increasing economic inequality, which Uslaner supports by aggregate time series in the United States and cross-sectional data across market economies.--, Provided by publisher
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