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Francis Fukuyama
Researcher at Stanford University
Publications - 217
Citations - 43655
Francis Fukuyama is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Democracy. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 211 publications receiving 42696 citations. Previous affiliations of Francis Fukuyama include Johns Hopkins University & University of Chile.
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Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity
TL;DR: Fukuyama as discussed by the authors argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of 21st-century capitalism and argued that in an era when social capital may be as important as physical capital, only those societies with a high degree of social trust will be able to create the flexible, large scale business organizations that are needed to compete in the new global economy.
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Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Francis Fukuyama,James C. Scott +1 more
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The End of History and the Last Man
TL;DR: Fukuyama as mentioned in this paper identifies two powerful forces guiding our actions: the logic of desire (the rational economic process); and the desire for recognition, which he describes as the very motor of history.
The end of history
TL;DR: Fukuyama's important thesis as mentioned in this paper was published before recent events in China and has received a great deal of attention and comment in the United States and France where it has been reprinted in Commentaire.
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Social capital, civil society and development
TL;DR: Social capital is an instantiated informal norm that promotes co-operation between individuals as mentioned in this paper, which is a byproduct of religion, tradition, shared historical experience and other types of cultural norms.