Trust And The Crisis Of Confidence In The System

The trust is necessary to the mankind's life like the air, but it was neglect by the scholar over a long period of time. With the development of the society, the division of labor is more deepen, the dependence of people is also enhances more, it need people trust others more than before; at the same time, the liquid of society is more strengthen, and the environment of people's is also more complicated, it need people have to be more careful when they trust others. The characteristics of the modern society make it even need to trust, and more difficult to acquire the trust, or easy to lose it. The fact of the society also expresses that the whole world are facing "trust crisis", China is more serious than others. The "trust crisis" involves extensive scope, and brings tremendous losses to China society. Under such background, "trust crisis" becomes the focus of different subject. This article based on the scholar's research, divided trust into micro-trust and macro-trust, mainly research the macro-trust in the stranger creation, and point out that the institution, it consists of various formal constraints, informal constraints, and enforces mechanism of institution, is the base of macro-trust. The institution stimulated macro-trust pass two kinds of paths; at first, it changes the expectation of the corpus of action. Second, it declines the risk of the corpus of action.In China, the "trust crisis" is product of China's traditional culture. China's traditional culture pays attention to the honesty and keeps promise to others very much, but it did not develop the macro-trust like as west world, but a kind of. micro-trust. Greef, an American scholar, point out a theory called "cultural paradox", it can explain the question. And the "trust crisis" also an unavoidable result of the China's institutional change, at the same time, the indefinite of government's action, and the gap between rich and poor, made the "trust crisis" of China is more serious. We choose WEN ZHOU as an example, analytical its process of restructuring of the trust. From the "trust crisis" to "model of credit" of today, it is mainly the result that formal institution, informal institution arranges effectively. WEN ZHOU experience enlightens for us, is while construct macro-trust of China, we should pay more attention to the reasonable valid arrangement toward the formal institution, informal institution. Concrete but speech, the valid formal institution, informal institution, is the critical paths that construct the macro-trust. At last, how to construct China's trust, there give some specific advice from politics, economics, culture and society.