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
4 - A Typology of Trust
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
In this chapter, we look at the three types of trust: government trust, business trust, and personal trust. Our objective is not to exhaustively describe or characterize them or their applications, but rather to introduce the basic features of how these trust providers work. Trust is unique in that it is something that is extremely valuable, but not something that individuals can create at a large scale by themselves. There is a natural limit on the amount of trust we can create ourselves. As a baseline, we may trust our family and our close friends, and this means the number of people we trust is in the tens or maybe as many as a hundred. There simply isn’t time in our days to maintain more friends than this without help. For any interactions beyond this natural limit, we need an intermediary or a technology to expand our trust potential.
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- The Trust RevolutionHow the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize Business and Government, pp. 29 - 49Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019