Trust is considered to be a precondition for individual action, cooperative relationships and societal order. In the social sciences, researchers have tried to explain trust by identifying the "good reasons" for trust that provide the basis for trusting. This paper argues that although trust has...

Machine generated contents note: PART I INTRODUCTION: SOCIAL DILEMMAS AND TRUST 1 -- Chapter 1 Introduction 3 -- Elinor Ostrom and James Walker -- Chapter 2 Toward a Behavioral Theory Linking -- Trust, Reciprocity, and Reputation 19 -- Elinor Ostrom -- Chapter 3 Gaming Trust 80 -- Russell Hardin...

Conceptions and explanations of trust / Russell Hardin -- Solving the problem of trust / Carol A. Heimer -- Trust as a form of shallow morality / David M. Messick and Roderick M. Kramer -- Trust as a form of social intelligence / Toshio Yamagishi -- Trust in signs / Michael Bacharach and Diego...