• DOI:10.1016/J.WORLDDEV.2003.10.009
Corpus ID: 59127312

Wealth-Based Trust and the Development of Collective Action.

@article{Jones2004WealthBasedTA,
  title={Wealth-Based Trust and the Development of Collective Action.},
  author={E. C. Jones},
  journal={World Development},
  year={2004},
  volume={32},
  pages={691-711}
}

E. C. Jones

Published 2004

Economics

World Development

Interpersonal trust is one possible mechanism by which wealth inequality affects the success of efforts in cooperation. Specifically, the presence of perceived economic differences between members of small agricultural cooperatives in northwest Ecuador’s agricultural frontier encourages trust in the wealthy, thus facilitating co-op development during the initial stage of cooperative formation. But, such inequality and exclusive trust may later negatively affect co-op success. These… CONTINUE READING

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