<< On the other hand, depending on the structure of the network, removing a few key nodes can sometimes do a lot of good, says Frank Fukuyama, author of the seminal work "Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity" and now a professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. >>
Is this the guy who, some years ago, wrote a book called "The End of History"? Everyone's entitled to one mistake, no matter how huge, and that I hope was his. Tom Beck Me: That is him, but he was right, although everybody misunderstood him. Fukuyama is (imo) one of America's best political scientists. Fukuyama was defining history in the Hegelian sense - that is, as the clash between two competing ideologies. He said that with the fall of the Soviet Union, there was no longer any meaningful ideological alternative to free-market liberal democracies, just small variations on the theme. He was, and remains, correct. No ideological alternative has presented itself, nor is it likely that one ever will. Thus the end of history, even though historical events continue. Gautam
