The Trust Revolution
How the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize Business and Government

Traces the history of innovation and trust, demonstrating how the Internet offers new ways to rehabilitate and strengthen trust.

M.Todd Henderson (Author), Salen Churi (Author)

9781108494236, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 August 2019

232 pages, 22 b/w illus.
23.5 x 15.7 x 1.7 cm, 0.46 kg

'A lively and engaging book on one of the most important topics in the world today. Highly recommended!' Cass R. Sunstein, author of How Change Happens

While conventional wisdom dictates that people's trust – in the government, in corporations, in each other - is at a historic low, the rise of the Internet is offering new ways to rehabilitate and strengthen trust. Uber is probably the best example of a new company that, on the surface, allows individuals with smartphones to get rides with strangers, but at a deeper level is in the business of trust. In The Trust Revolution, M. Todd Henderson and Salen Churi trace the history of innovation and trust, linking companies such as Uber with medieval guilds, early corporations, self-regulatory organizations, and New-Deal era administrative agencies. This book should be read by anyone who wants to understand how trust - and its means of creation - has the potential not only to expand opportunities for human cooperation, but also to reduce the size and scope of government and corporate control over our lives.

Introduction: riding with strangers
Part I: 1. The collapse of trust
2. Hiding in plain sight
3. Trust and human flourishing
4. Typology of trust: government trust
5. The genealogy of trust
6. The market for trust
Part II: 7. Private trust and the regulation of stock brokers
8. Providing trust in the ridesharing market
Part III: 9. Hacking trust
10. Sketching on a blank slate
11. Concluding thoughts.

Subject Areas: Constitutional & administrative law [LND], E-commerce law [LNCB2], Law [L], Business innovation [KJD], Economics [KC]