TOMASZ OLEJNICZAK — Development of Trust in Low-Trust Societies

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8 of 387 paragraphs kept (2.1%). Target: 35%+ — ⚠️ BELOW target.

Thesis

Trust behaves like moral capital that grows with use, unlike physical capital. · ch. 0

Argument

1. Generalized trust means trust toward strangers beyond one’s known circle. — ch. 0
2. Initial trust levels create self-reinforcing spirals of cooperation or distrust — ch. 0
3. Economic transactions are governed by their embeddedness in social networks — ch. 0
4. Growth of communities inevitably pushes trust from personal to institutional forms — ch. 0
5. Life cycle models cannot capture abstract concepts like trust. — ch. 1
6. Relational network-based informal institutions tend toward closure and block generalized trust. — ch. 1
7. In low-trust societies commerce stays confined within family and friend circles. — ch. 1

Annotation Roundup

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• Initial trust levels create self-reinforcing spirals of cooperation or distrust — Connects to the reading purpose’s dynamic — initial trust capital (Milinski) creates path-dependence, echoing Zucker’s background trust literature.
• Economic transactions are governed by their embeddedness in social networks — Directly reinforces the reader’s interpretive frame for Wharton’s novel: reputation and social ties set the terms of exchange in 1870s New York.
• Trust behaves like moral capital that grows with use, unlike physical capital. — Directly parallel to the reader’s framing of reputation as essential capital (Milinski) in the Wharton chapter — a capital that is replenished and expanded through social deployment, not spent down.
• Relational network-based informal institutions tend toward closure and block generalized trust. — Connects to the reader’s thread on how elite social control in 1870s New York works via high-density networks — relational closure blocking generalized trust parallels the Olenska network’s insular sanctioning.
• In low-trust societies commerce stays confined within family and friend circles. — Mirrors the reader’s framing of Wharton’s New York: exchange is limited to those one knows personally or is linked to through close ties — the same high-density-network constraint. Seed
• Initial trust levels create self-reinforcing spirals of cooperation or distrust — An essay angle on first impressions and early-stage credibility as path-dependent for institutions and even nations. Define
• Economic transactions are governed by their embeddedness in social networks — Crisp statement of the embeddedness (Granovetter) perspective — social ties set terms of exchange within networks.
• Generalized trust means trust toward strangers beyond one’s known circle. — Clarifies the distinct conceptualization of generalized trust vs. process-based and characteristic-based trust within closed networks.