The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order

By Francis Fukuyama

Categories: Politics & Social Sciences

The Great Disruption (1999) is Francis Fukuyama's account of the rise in crime, family breakdown and declining trust in Western countries from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s. He links it to the shift from industrial to information economies. Drawing on biology, economics and sociology, he argues that people are naturally inclined to create moral rules and social order. He says the evidence was already showing these social norms re-forming in the 1990s.

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