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My Ph.D. Dissertation,
entitled "The Political Economy of Trust: Exploration Cooperation between
Mechanical Engineering Firms in Emilia-Romagna and Baden-Württemberg"
was awarded by Georgetown University in 2000. It seeks to combine recent advances
in the rational choice modelling of institutions with work on the so-called
"encapsulated interest" account of trust. It then applies this theory to
cooperation between firms in "industrial districts" - geographically dense
areas of small-firm production.
Much of my current work seeks to apply
and expand the insights of my dissertation research. Some of this work has
been carried out in collaboration with other scholars. Papers co-written
with Jack Knight (on institutional change in industrial districts and social
capital), and with Luigi Burroni (understanding the role of local government
in providing or preventing change) are currently under preparation. Future
work includes another paper being co-written with Jack Knight on the theoretical
issues involved in institutions and trust, and a projected paper with Avner
Greif on industrial districts and game theory.
The research for my Ph.D. was carried
out in the context of a larger project co-directed by Colin Crouch, Patrick
Le Galès, Carlo Trigilia and Helmut Voelzkow, on the "Governance of
Local Economies." This project has published a first volume, "Local Production
Systems in Europe: Rise or Demise?" published by Oxford University Press
(2001), which includes a chapter on the UK economy co-written by Colin Crouch
and I. Volume II, currently under preparation, includes a chapter co-written
by Ann-Louise Lauridsen and I on the packaging machinery cluster in Bologna.
Four sample pieces are included here.
A comparative paper
on trust and industrial districts, available on the ISNIE 2001 conference website
An article
co-written with Jack Knight, forthcoming in Politics and Society.
Trust, Distrust and Power,
submitted for publication in Russell Hardin ed., Distrust, to be published
in the Russell Sage series on Trust.
Henry Farrell and Ann-Louise Lauridsen,
Collective
Goods in the Local Economy: The Packaging Cluster in Bologna
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