Book contents
- The Trust Revolution
- The Trust Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Riding with Strangers
- Part I
- 1 The Collapse of Trust
- 2 Hiding in Plain Sight
- 3 Trust and Human Flourishing
- 4 A Typology of Trust
- 5 The Genealogy of Trust
- 6 The Market for Trust
- Part II
- Part III
- Index
3 - Trust and Human Flourishing
from Part I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 July 2019
- The Trust Revolution
- The Trust Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Riding with Strangers
- Part I
- 1 The Collapse of Trust
- 2 Hiding in Plain Sight
- 3 Trust and Human Flourishing
- 4 A Typology of Trust
- 5 The Genealogy of Trust
- 6 The Market for Trust
- Part II
- Part III
- Index
Summary
Trust is essential to human flourishing. It enables us to work together, to engage in voluntary trades, and to specialize in ways that dramatically increase our productivity and wellbeing. “Trust” can mean many things, but we define it as the information and reliability that enables two or more parties to coordinate, to cooperate, or to do business while having confidence in fair dealing. We trust that our parents will not harm us, that strangers will not attack us, that a hamburger at Shake Shack will not be poisonous, and that the shipment of steel will arrive as scheduled. The big question is: “Why?”
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- The Trust RevolutionHow the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize Business and Government, pp. 22 - 28Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019