Margin-society trust operates differently than economists imagine

Evidence

The value of the Frafra case study is that it forces us to conceptualize social life on the margins of the industrial world; and to concede that ‘trust’ may occupy a rather different place in the spectrum of social organization there than it does in the imagination of economists. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2455

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels White Noise’s theorized consumer trust and Saramago’s collapse of trust when monitoring fails — margin case studies reveal the contingent, non-universal nature of trust that both Luhmann and the blindness novel expose.
• ADDENDUM: Supports the argument that trust is situational and observability-dependent, relevant to the reviewer’s social-order analysis.