{{short description|American political scientist (1940–2017)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox academic |name = Russell Hardin |birth_date = {{Birth year|1940}} |death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|2|24|1940}} |alma_mater = University of Texas (BA)<br>Oxford University (BA)<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)<ref name = ethics>{{Cite web|last=Hoodin|first=Bob|date=2017|title=Russell Hardin, Editor of Ethics from 1982 to 1990, died on February 24, 2017 aged 76.|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/pb-assets/docs/journals/et-russell-hardin-memorial-notice.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=Ethics}}</ref>

|workplaces = University of Pennsylvania<br>University of Maryland<br>University of Chicago<br>Stanford University<br>New York University<ref name = ethics/> }}

'''Russell Hardin''' (1940 – 24 February 2017) was an American political scientist.<ref name = ethics/><ref>{{Cite web|title=Hardin, Russell 1940- {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/hardin-russell-1940|access-date=2020-10-18|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref> He is known for his works on collective action and trust.<ref>{{Cite book|date=2018|editor-last=Christiano|editor-first=Thomas|editor2-last=Creppell|editor2-first=Ingrid|editor3-last=Knight|editor3-first=Jack|title=Morality, Governance, and Social Institutions|url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-61070-2|language=en-gb|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-61070-2|isbn=978-3-319-61069-6}}</ref> He earned his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971. At the time of his death, he was a professor in the New York University Department of Politics.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020|title=NYU: Russell Hardin|url=https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/russell-hardin.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref> In 1990, he was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Russell Hardin|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/russell-hardin|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-22|website=www.amacad.org}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography == === Books === * {{cite book | last = Hardin | first = Russell | title = Indeterminacy and society | publisher = Princeton University Press | year = 2013}} * {{cite book | last = Hardin | first = Russell | title = How do you know? The economics of ordinary knowledge | publisher = Princeton University Press | year = 2009 | isbn = 978-0-691-13755-1}} * {{cite book | last = Hardin | first = Russell | title = Trust | publisher = Polity | year = 2006 | isbn = 0-7456-2465-0}} * {{cite book | last = Hardin | first = Russell | title = Trust and trustworthiness | publisher = Russell Sage Foundation | year = 2002 | isbn = 9780871543417}} * {{cite book | last = Hardin | first = Russell | title = Liberalism, constitutionalism, and democracy | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1999 | isbn = 9780191599415}} * {{cite book | last = Hardin | first = Russell | title = One for all: The logic of group conflict | publisher = Princeton University Press | year = 1995 | isbn = 1-4008-0345-4}} * {{cite book | last = Hardin | first = Russell | title = Morality within the limits of reason | publisher = University of Chicago Press | year = 1988 | isbn = 0-226-31618-1}} * {{cite book | last = Hardin | first = Russell | title = Collective action | publisher = RFF Press | year = 1982}}

=== Journal articles === * {{cite journal | last = Hardin | first = Russell | title = The street-level epistemology of trust | journal = Politics & Society | volume = 21 | issue = 4 | date = December 1993 | pages = 505-529}}

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