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Described by political scientists as a necessary condition for efficiency, productivity, and prosperity, trust has become a precept of good governance with global reach. The concept is often marshaled to support a conservative political agenda of state retrenchment and market deregulation. Proponents of this agenda argue that the natural inclination of private actors to trust and cooperate with each other is undermined by government monitoring and compliance regulations. The evidence from Mexico points to an alternative conclusion: when carefully targeted, state support to private actors has strengthened rather than impeded trusting relationships between suppliers, customers, and investors. Commercial competition with China raises an urgent challenge for Mexico's government: to broaden the scope of its assistance beyond a narrow set of elite firms to small and medium-sized enterprises, including those of the resident Chinese community.Considerado por politólogos como condición necesaria para la eficiencia, productividad y prosperidad, la confianza ha llegado a ser un precepto de buena gobernanza con alcance global. Se utiliza el concepto a menudo para respaldar una agenda política conservadora de recortes del estado y desregulación del mercado. Los defensores de tal agenda sostienen que la inclinación natural de actores privados de confiar y cooperar entre sí es socavada por la fiscalización gubernamental y las regulaciones de cumplimiento. La evidencia desde México apunta a una conclusión alternativa: seleccionado cuidadosamente, el apoyo estatal a actores privados ha fortalecido en vez de impedir las relaciones de confianza entre proveedores, clientes, e inversores. La competencia comercial con la China presenta un desafío urgente para el gobierno de México: de ampliar el alcance de su ayuda más allá de un conjunto reducido de compañías élites hacia pequeñas y medianas empresas, inclu-yendo las de la comunidad residente china.

Many regard Henry David Thoreau as an apolitical or even antipolitical thinker, concerned above all with his personal moral purity, and thus unresponsive and irresponsible towards the society in which he lived. Contrary to this received interpretation, I argue that Thoreau's life and work articulates a robust and complex doctrine of intersubjective responsibility and political agency. Although he denies individual responsibility to institutions and other persons, he soberly embraces individual responsibility for one's role in shaping and maintaining the arrangements of society, including those that compromise the self and lend support to vicious practices and institutions. In respect of his understanding of responsibility, both his strident critique of modern society and his committed individualism appear as political postures especially apt for late modern times.