Trustworthiness requires social embedding that constrains opportunism

Evidence

Unlike many of our important relationships, this one was partially abstracted from social context rather than being heavily embedded in a context that could govern the interaction and enforce trustworthiness. Trifonov’s misappropriated rubles thereafter thread their complex way through Dostoyevsky’s entire novel, wrecking lives while motivating the plot. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 61

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s stated project — this is the Hardin/Luhmann integration point about social context governing trust. The doctor’s wife in Blindness acts as the sole remaining ‘context’ enforcing trustworthiness. — connects to: Global impersonal markets rest on personal trust and telephone networks; Virtue only produces social benefit when embedded in reciprocal networks — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 34