Conceptions and explanations of trust / Russell Hardin -- Solving the problem of trust / Carol A. Heimer -- Trust as a form of shallow morality / David M. Messick and Roderick M. Kramer -- Trust as a form of social intelligence / Toshio Yamagishi -- Trust in signs / Michael Bacharach and Diego...

This study presents evidence about relations between national culture and social institutions. We operationalize culture with data on cultural dimensions for some 50 nations adopted from cross-cultural psychology and generate testable hypotheses about three basic social norms of governance: the...

The importance of the institutional framework for economic development is widely accepted today and it is duly stressed in the economic literature. The protection of property rights, the enforcement of contracts and an efficient legal system are the pillars of the contemporary rule of law....