The Problem of Political Trust

A Conceptual Reformulation
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-50436-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 232 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 288 g

Reihe: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

Trust has been the subject of empirical and theoretical inquiry in a range of disciplines, including sociology, economics, psychology, philosophy, public policy and political theory. The book approaches trust from a multi-disciplinary scope of inquiry. It explains why most existing definitions and theories of trust are inadequate.

The book examines how trust evolved from a quality of personal relationships into a critical factor in political institutions and representation, and to an abstract and impersonal factor that applies now to complex systems, including monetary systems.

It makes a distinctive contribution by recasting trust conceptually in dialectical and pragmatic terms, and reapplying the concept to our understanding of critical issues in politics and political economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duncan, Grant (Massey University, New Zealand)

Duncan, Grant

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Uses of Trust

2. Re-describing Trust

3. Trust’s Political Genealogy

4. Transformations of Trust

5. Money: Trust in Action?

6. Hegel and Nietzsche

7. Trust With or Without Conditions

8. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Grant Duncan is a scholar of political theory and public policy, and a political commentator, living in Auckland, New Zealand. His previous work on pain and on happiness, linking subjective states with political aims and public institutions, can be found in Economy & Society, Journal of Happiness Studies, and The Monist.