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Diego Gambetta is an Italian born social scientist. He is a professor of sociology and an official fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He is well known for the application of economic theory and a rational choice approach in understanding social phenomena. He has made important analytical contributions to the concept of trust using a game theoretic framework, involving signaling theory[1].
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In his book “The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection” (published by Harvard University Press in 1993), he brings a new perspective on an extralegal institution like the Mafia by underscoring the market demand for protection that it satisfies. His subsequent work with Michael Bacharach (a game theorist at Oxford) on trust follows Michael Spence’s earlier application of signaling theory in economics[2]. Signaling theory in social sciences has been adopted from the world of evolutionary biology – it asserts that costly behavior guarantees the reliability of signals among animals, and also among humans in social interactions.
Gambetta’s recent work is on communication in the world of criminals. His book “Codes of the Underworld” (published by Princeton University Press in August 2009) also applies signaling theory to analyze how credibility of communication is established in a world where trust cannot be taken for granted. Thomas Schelling, the Nobel economist, one of the foremost to write on economics of organized crime, considers it to be an important contribution to the sociology of crime and strategic signaling behavior.
In terms of intellectual influences on Gambetta’s work, one may count Jon Elster, Michael Bacharach, Partha Dasgupta, and Bernard Williams.[3] Gambetta got his PhD from University of Cambridge, where he was supervised by the sociologist Katie Marsh.
Gambetta previously was a research fellow at Kings College, Cambridge, and Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford.
Works
Books
2009. Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate. Princeton University Press
2006 (editor). Making Sense of Suicide Missions. Oxford: Oxford University Press
2005. Streetwise. How Taxi Drivers Establish Customers’ Trustworthiness. New York: Russell Sage Foundation (with Heather Hamill)
1993. The Sicilian Mafia. The Business of Private Protection. Harvard University Press
1988a (editor). Trust. Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations. Oxford: Basil Blackwell
1987. Were they pushed or did they jump? Individual decision mechanisms in education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Selected Articles
2006. “Trust’s odd ways”. In J. Elster, O. Gjelsvik, A. Hylland and K. Moene (eds.) Understanding Choice, Explaining Behaviour Essays in Honour of Ole-Jørgen Skog, Oslo: Unipub Forlag/Oslo Academic Press .
2005. “Deceptive mimicry in humans”. In S. Hurley and N. Chater (eds.), Perspective on Imitation: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Social Science, Cambridge: MIT Press, vol II, pp. 221-241.
2002. “Corruption: An Analytical Map”. In S. Kotkin and A. Sajo (eds.), Political Corruption of Transition: A Sceptic’s Handbook, Budapest: Central European University Press, pp. 33-56 (2004 Reprinted in W. Jordan and E. Kreike (eds.), Corrupt histories. University of Rochester Press, pp. 3-28)
2001. “Trust as type identification”. In C. Castelfranchi and Yao-Hua Tan, Trust and Deception in Virtual Societies. Dordrecht: Kluwer Publishers, pp. 1-26 (with Michael Bacharach)
2001. “Trust in signs”. In K. Cook (ed.) Trust and Society, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, pp. 148-184 (with Michael Bacharach)
1998. “Claro!’ An essay on discursive machismo”. In J.Elster (ed.), Deliberative Democracy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 19-43 (2001. Spanish translation, in J.Elster (ed.) Democracia Deliberativa. Barcelona: Editorial Gedisa)
1998. “Concatenations of mechanisms”. In P.Hedstrοm and R. Swedberg (eds.), Social mechanisms. An analytical approach to social theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 102-24
1995. “Conspiracy among the many: the mafia in legitimate industries” (with Peter Reuter). In G.Fiorentini & S.Peltzman (eds.), The economics of organized crime, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 116-136 (2000.
1994. “Inscrutable markets”, Rationality and Society, 6, 3, 353-368
1994. “Godfather's gossip”, Archives Européennes de Sociologie, XXXV, 2, 199-223
1991. “In the beginning was the Word: the symbols of the mafia” Archives Européennes de Sociologie, XXXII, 1, 53-77
1988. “Fragments of an economic theory of the mafia”. Archives Européenes de Sociologie, XXIX, 1, 127-145
References
- ^ Bacharach, M. and Gambetta, D. 2001. Trust in Signs. In Trust in Society, K. Cook (Ed.), New York, NY, Sage: 148-184.
- ^ Michael Spence, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 87, No. 3 (Aug., 1973), pp. 355-374 [1]
- ^ Gambetta, Diego - More Hedgehog than Fox: The Common Thread in the study of Criminals, Taxi Drivers and Suicide Bombers,[2]