Lacking trust intermediaries blocks credit, self-employment, and community entry

Evidence

Among the many groups that have long had difficulty owing to a lack of relevant intermediaries to help establish their trustworthiness have been wives seeking credit, the self-employed, and new arrivals to a community. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 644

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to institutional-credit research like Milgrom on reputation intermediaries; wives’ credit access echoes the sort of trust-and-credit gaps studied in social capital literature.