Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to ThriveIn today's hyper-connected society, understanding the mechanisms of trust is crucial. Issues of trust are critical to solving problems as diverse as corporate responsibility, global warming, and the political system. In this insightful and entertaining book, Schneier weaves together ideas from across the social and biological sciences to explain how society induces trust. He shows the unique role of trust in facilitating and stabilizing human society. He discusses why and how trust has evolved, why it works the way it does, and the ways the information society is changing everything. |
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... benefits of government without having to pay for them, but we're collectively better off if everyone pays taxes. Every country might want to be able to do whatever it wants, but the world is better off with international agreements ...
... benefits of government without having to pay for them, but we're collectively better off if everyone pays taxes. Every country might want to be able to do whatever it wants, but the world is better off with international agreements ...
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... benefits to those who have access to it, but it also brings with it new forms of fraud. Impersonation fraud—now called identity theft—is both easier and more profitable than it was pre-Internet. Spam continues to undermine the usability ...
... benefits to those who have access to it, but it also brings with it new forms of fraud. Impersonation fraud—now called identity theft—is both easier and more profitable than it was pre-Internet. Spam continues to undermine the usability ...
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... benefit of cheaper production costs, but the environmental cost falls on everybody else on the planet. And it's not just global problems, of course. Narrower failures in trust are so numerous as to defy listing. Here are just a few ...
... benefit of cheaper production costs, but the environmental cost falls on everybody else on the planet. And it's not just global problems, of course. Narrower failures in trust are so numerous as to defy listing. Here are just a few ...
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... benefit of intelligence; smarter people are more likely to survive their human adversaries. And the smarter someone is, the more an adversary wants to kill him—and not just make him submit, as other species do. Looking at the average ...
... benefit of intelligence; smarter people are more likely to survive their human adversaries. And the smarter someone is, the more an adversary wants to kill him—and not just make him submit, as other species do. Looking at the average ...
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... benefit) to commensalism (one benefits) to parasitism (one benefits and the other is harmed). The society of our bodies needs the cooperators to survive, and at the same time spends a lot of energy defending itself against the defectors ...
... benefit) to commensalism (one benefits) to parasitism (one benefits and the other is harmed). The society of our bodies needs the cooperators to survive, and at the same time spends a lot of energy defending itself against the defectors ...
Contents
THE REAL WORLD | 137 |
Organizations | 155 |
Corporations | 173 |
Institutions | 195 |
Technological Advances | 225 |
The Future | 243 |
References | 289 |
About the Author | 349 |
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