new book – ‘Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive’
Written on February 2, 2012
Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive by Bruce Schneier (Wiley, 2012)
(kindle ed.), (amazon.co.uk – 8 Mar 2012)
Product description from the publisher:
How does society function when you can’t trust everyone?
When we think about trust, we naturally think about personal relationships or bank vaults. That’s too narrow. Trust is much broader, and much more important. Nothing in society works without trust. It’s the foundation of communities, commerce, democracy—everything.
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 how trust works and fails in social settings, communities, organizations, countries, and the world.
In today’s hyper-connected society, understanding the mechanisms of trust is as important as understanding electricity was a century ago. Issues of trust and security are critical to solving problems as diverse as corporate responsibility, global warming, and our moribund political system. After reading Liars and Outliers, you’ll think about social problems, large and small, differently.
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Filed in: culture,psychology.
