1. William McNeill, The Pursuit of Power (Oxford: Blackwell. 1983).
2. See the statistics provided in Ruth Leger Sivard, World Military and Social Expenditures (Washington, D.C.: World Priorities, 1983).
3. Georg Simmel, The Philosophy of Money (London: Routledge, 1978), p.179.
4. Alan Fox, Beyond Contract (London: Faber, 1974).
5. For one of the few generalised discussions of trust in systems, see Susan P. Schapiro, ‘The social control of impersonal trust’, American Journal of Sociology, vol. 93, 1987.