Diego Gambetta
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British sociologist
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Diego Gambetta's Degrees
- PhD Sociology University of Oxford
- Bachelors Philosophy, Politics, and Economics University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Diego Gambetta is an Italian-born social scientist. He is a professor of social theory at the European University Institute in Florence, a Carlo Alberto Chair at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, and an official fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He is well known for his vivid and unconventional applications of economic theory and a rational choice theory approach to understanding a variety of social phenomena. He has made important analytical contributions to the concept of trust by using game theory and signalling theory.
Diego Gambetta's Published Works
Published Works
- Trust : making and breaking cooperative relations (1989) (3395)
- Can We Trust Trust (2000) (2367)
- The Sicilian mafia: the business of private protection (1994) (1329)
- Were They Pushed or Did They Jump?: Individual Decision Mechanisms in Education (1989) (380)
- Trust in signs. (2001) (341)
- Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate (2009) (329)
- Measuring people's trust (2009) (192)
- Conspiracy among the Many: the Mafia in Legitimate Industries (1995) (153)
- Making sense of suicide missions (2005) (152)
- Mafia: The Price of Distrust (1988) (149)
- Do strong family ties inhibit trust (2008) (140)
- Deliberative Democracy: “Claro!”: An Essay on Discursive Machismo (1998) (131)
- Amoral Familism, Social Capital, or Trust? The Behavioural Foundations of the Italian North–South Divide (2016) (121)
- Sicilian Mafia (2019) (120)
- Streetwise : how taxi drivers establish their customers' trustworthiness (2005) (108)
- Social Mechanisms: Concatenations of mechanisms (1998) (93)
- Engineers of Jihad: The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education (2016) (90)
- Why are there so many Engineers among Islamic Radicals? (2009) (76)
- Fragments of an economic theory of the mafia (1988) (69)
- Trust as type detection (2001) (63)
- Can We Make Sense of Suicide Missions (2005) (57)
- Godfather's gossip (1994) (42)
- People's Trust: The Design of a Survey-Based Experiment (2006) (40)
- Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Customer's Trustworthiness (2005) (39)
- Natural and Strategic Generosity as Signals of Trustworthiness (2014) (35)
- Were they Pushed or did they Jump?: WERE THEY PUSHED? (1987) (34)
- At the Root of the North–South Cooperation Gap in Italy: Preferences or Beliefs? (2018) (25)
- Cooperation Hidden Frontiers: The Behavioral Foundations of the Italian North-South Divide (2013) (21)
- Inscrutable Markets (1994) (20)
- Behind the Veil: The Strategic Use of Religious Garb (2016) (20)
- Thick as thieves: Homophily and trust among deviants (2014) (16)
- L-worlds. The curious preference for low quality and its norms (2009) (15)
- Italy: Lofty Ambitions and Unintended Consequences (2004) (13)
- FAIRNESS AND RETALIATION : THE ECONOMICS OF RECIPROCITY Ernst Fehr Simon Gächter (2000) (13)
- Income and Trustworthiness (2016) (13)
- It takes two to cheat: An experiment on derived trust (2013) (13)
- Were they Pushed or did they Jump?: OR DID THEY JUMP? (1987) (12)
- Signs and (counter)signals of trustworthiness (2014) (10)
- Were they Pushed or did they Jump?: The youth unemployment survey (1987) (10)
- The Politics behind the Veil (2019) (9)
- Were they Pushed or did they Jump?: Preface (1987) (8)
- Why is Italy Disproportionally Corrupt?: A Conjecture (2018) (8)
- ‘In the beginning was the Word…’ The symbols of the mafia (1991) (7)
- The rhetoric of reform revealed (or: If you bite the ballot it may bite back) (1996) (7)
- "The Sicilian Mafia". Twenty Years After Publication (2011) (7)
- Trustworthy by Convention (2012) (6)
- The LL game (2013) (6)
- The Long Shadow of Income on Trustworthiness (2011) (5)
- Who do Taxi Drivers Trust? (2006) (4)
- Sharing Compromising Information as a Cooperative Strategy (2019) (4)
- L’enfer c’est les autres? The effects of COVID-19 virus on interpersonal trust (2020) (4)
- Does information about toughness decrease fighting? Experimental evidence (2020) (3)
- At the Root of the North-South Cooperation Gap in Italy: Preferences or Beliefs? (2017) (3)
- Decision mechanisms: educational choices in Italy (1984) (3)
- The curious preference for low quality and its norms L-worlds The curious preference for low quality and its norms 1 (2009) (1)
- Subcontracting in French Industry (2000) (1)
- The economics of organised crime: Conspiracy among the many: the mafia in legitimate industries (1996) (1)
- There's something about engineers… (2009) (1)
- Were they Pushed or did they Jump?: Conclusions (1987) (0)
- Tinker, tailor, engineer, jihadi: can university subjects reveal terrorists in the making (2009) (0)
- My attention to gossip as a notion worthy of reflection was attracted by a trivial detail: the English etymology of gossip is god-sib, (2016) (0)
- Were they Pushed or did they Jump?: References (1987) (0)
- 3. Information as Hostage (2009) (0)
- Tinker, tailor, engineer, jihadi... (2009) (0)
- Do the middle shout loudest? Signs and (counter)signals of trustworthiness and toughness (2014) (0)
- 4. The Ideology of Islamist Extremism Compared (2016) (0)
- 1. The Education of Islamist Extremists (2016) (0)
- 5. The Education of Other Extremists (2016) (0)
- Were they Pushed or did they Jump?: Introduction (1987) (0)
- 3. Relative Deprivation Probed (2016) (0)
- Rationality, Democracy, and Justice: What Makes People Tip (2014) (0)
- The high school pupils survey (1987) (0)
- Friends in Misdeeds are Friends Indeed (2011) (0)
- Review of the book Engineering Jihad: The Curious Connection Between Violent Extremism and Education by Diego Gambetta and Steffan Hertog. (2017) (0)
- Volume 6 Peer Reviewers (2004) (0)
- Regional disparities in Italy may have to do with trust and cooperation (2016) (0)
- MORE HEDGEHOG THAN FOX THE COMMON THREAD IN THE STUDY OF CRIMINALS, TAXI DRIVERS AND SUICIDE BOMBERS (2012) (0)
- The theoretical question (2019) (0)
- FOUNDATION OF SOCIAL LIFE 2014: EXPLANATORY SOCIAL MECHANISMS (2014) (0)
- The Sicilian Mafia ” . Twenty Years After (2019) (0)
- Institutional constraints and educational choices (2019) (0)
- 6. Mind- sets for Extremists (2016) (0)
- Logit models: summary tables (1987) (0)
- 2. Relative Deprivation in the Islamic World (2016) (0)
- The Long Shadow of Income on Trustworthiness 1 (2011) (0)
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