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Gambetta has a long lasting interest in trust. In 1987, when the concept was largely ignored in the social sciences, he published a groundbreaking edited collection, with authors from all quarters of the social sciences ("Trust. Making and
Breaking Cooperative Relations"). His subsequent work in this
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by underscoring the market demand for protection that it satisfies and by showing how mafiosi apparently outlandish rituals and behaviours make organisational sense. His approach has had much influence on the study of mafia-like organisations around the world â it has been applied to cases in Russia,
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Gambetta's work has, in recent years, extended to examining violent extremists. A number of
Gambetta's research questions have come from "puzzles", unexpected or counter-intuitive correlations, such as the presence of a large proportion of engineers among Islamic radicals. In 2005 he edited âMaking
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to understand the nature of trust decisions. This work describes at once how trust can be threatened by "mimics" of signals of trustworthiness, and the general conditions under which signals of trustworthiness can be relied upon. Signalling theory, which emerged simultaneously in economics and
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2002. âCorruption: An
Analytical Mapâ. In S. Kotkin and A. Sajo (eds.), Political Corruption of Transition: A Sceptic's Handbook, Budapest: Central European University Press, pp. 33â56 (2004 Reprinted in W. Jordan and E. Kreike (eds.), Corrupt histories. University of Rochester Press,
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biology in the early 1970s âasserts that the reliability of signals, in social interactions among humans and other animals, depends on whether the signals are supported by behaviour that would be too costly for (most) mimics to afford, while being affordable by genuine signallers.
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1998. âClaro!â An essay on discursive machismoâ. In J.Elster (ed.), Deliberative
Democracy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 19â43 (2001. Spanish translation, in J.Elster (ed.) Democracia Deliberativa. Barcelona: Editorial Gedisa)
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1995. âConspiracy among the many: the mafia in legitimate industriesâ (with Peter Reuter). In G.Fiorentini & S.Peltzman (eds.), The economics of organised crime, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, pp. 116â136 (2000.
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2006. âTrustâs odd waysâ. In J. Elster, O. Gjelsvik, A. Hylland and K. Moene (eds.) Understanding Choice, Explaining
Behaviour Essays in Honour of Ole-JĂžrgen Skog, Oslo: Unipub Forlag/Oslo Academic Press .
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2005. âDeceptive mimicry in humansâ. In S. Hurley and N. Chater (eds.), Perspective on
Imitation: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Social Science, Cambridge: MIT Press, vol II, pp. 221â241.
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1998. âConcatenations of mechanismsâ. In P.HedstrÎżm and R. Swedberg (eds.), Social mechanisms. An analytical approach to social theory, Cambridge: Cambridge
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After an imaginative application of the theory to how taxi drivers in dangerous cities decide whether to take on board hailers and callers on the basis of little information, his book
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Suicide Missionsâ (published by Oxford University Press), and he is now working with Steffen Hertog on a book on âEngineers of Jihadâ for Princeton University Press.
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2001. âTrust in signsâ. In K. Cook (ed.) Trust and Society, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, pp. 148â184 (with Michael Bacharach)
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Gambetta, D., & Hamill, H. (2005). Streetwise. How taxi drivers establish their customers' trustworthiness. New York: Russel Sage
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2009. ââHeroic impatienceâ: the Baader-Meinhof Gang 1968â1977â, AretĂ©, 29, 11â34 (published in the US in The Nation, 22 March 2010).
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2012. âThe LL-game. The curious preference for low quality and its normsâ, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, (with Gloria Origgi)
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Dixit, A. (2004). Lawlessness and Economics: Alternative Modes of Economic Governance. Gorman Lectures. Princeton University Press.
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2010. âDo strong family ties inhibit trust?â, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 75, 3, 365â376 (with John Ermisch)
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1987. Were they pushed or did they jump? Individual decision mechanisms in education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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