A penetrating assessment of the emerging global economic order after History.Ó Explains the social principles of economic life & tells us what we need to know to win the coming struggle for world dominance. Examines a wide range of national cultures in order to divine the underlying principles that foster social & economic prosperity. Insisting that we cannot divorce economic life from cultural life, the author contends 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 bus. organizations that are needed to compete in the new global economics. Best Business Book of 1995.