Diego Gambetta (282 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A taxi driver's life is dangerous work. Picking up a bad customer can leave the driver in a vulnerable position, and erring even once can prove fatal. To protect themselves, taxi drivers must quickly and accurately assess the trustworthiness of complete strangers. In Streetwise, Diego Gambetta and Heather Hamill take this predicament as a prototypical example of many trust decisions, where people must act on limited information and judge another person's trustworthiness based on signs that may or may not be honest indicators of that person's character or intent. Gambetta and Hamill analyze the behavior of cabbies in two cities where driving a taxi is especially perilous: New York City, where drivers have been the targets of frequent and violent robberies, and Belfast, Northern Ireland, a divided metropolis where drivers have been swept up in the region's sectarian violence. Based on in-depth ethnographic research, Streetwise lets drivers describe in their own words how they seek to determine the threat posed by each potential passenger. The drivers' decisions about whom to trust are treated in conjunction with the "sign-management" strategies of their prospective passengers--both genuine passengers who try to persuade drivers of their trustworthiness and the villains who mimic them. As the theory that guides this research suggests, drivers look for signs that correlate closely with trustworthiness but are difficult for an impostor to mimic. A smile, a business suit, or a skullcap alone do not reassure drivers, as any criminal could easily wear them. Only if attached to other signs--a middle-aged woman, a business address, or a synagogue--are they persuasive. Drivers are adept at deciphering deceitful signals, but trickery is occasionally undetectable, so they must adopt defensive strategies to minimize their exposure to harm. In Belfast, where drivers are locals and often have histories of paramilitary involvement, "macho" posturing often serves to deter would-be criminals, while New York cabbies, mostly immigrants who view themselves as outsiders, try simply to minimize the damage from attacks by appeasing robbers and carrying only small amounts of cash. For most people, erring in a trust decision leads to a broken heart or a few dollars lost. For cab drivers, such an error could mean losing their lives. The way drivers negotiate these high stakes offers us vivid insight into how to determine another person's trustworthiness. Written with clarity and color, Streetwise invites the reader to ride shotgun with cabbies as they grapple with a question of relevance to us all: which signs of trustworthiness can we really trust? A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust.…

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green, orange & white decorative trade paperback soft cover 8vo. fine cond. looks new. binding square & tight. spine uncreased. covers clean. tiny ding in front cover. edges clean. contents free of markings. second printing. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~. vi+335p. 2 appendices. notes. bibliography. index. history of italy. politics. true crime. secret societies. conspiracy theory. ~ In a society where trust is in short supply and democracy weak, the Mafia sells protection, a guarantee of safe conduct for parties to commercial transactions. Drawing on the confessions of eight Mafiosi and other trial sources, Diego Gambetta develops an elegant analysis of the economic and political role of the Sicilian Mafia. "Diego Gambetta's analysis of the Sicilian Mafia is likely to become a classic. It uses a dazzling combination of economic theory and sociological insight to make sense of a significant but mysterious social institution. What is more, it is a good read: the analysis is backed up with a wealth of fascinating and unsensationalized anecdotes about the day~to~day workings of the Mafia." ~Robert Sugden, Journal of Economic Literature. "[Gambetta] shows in detail how protection against competition is secured and how intelligence~gathering and secrecy, violence and the securing and maintaining of reputations can be understood as a means of dealing in the special commodity of protection . Best of all is Gambetta's nuanced discussion of what maintains the organization and cohesion of the Mafia." ~ Steven Lukes, Times Literary Supplement. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dj Has Light Edgewear With A Couple Tiny Tears. Light Wear. Very Light Soiling. Inside Hinge Is Creased.

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