Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation

The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ... . For while there may be some isolated true believers left in places like Managua, Pyongyang, or Cambridge, MA.

To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard

If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members

In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both.

The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.

If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set of ethical norms....such a society will be better able to innovate...since the high degree of trust will permit a wide variety of social relationships to emerge.