The Trust Revolution: How the Digitalization of Trust Will Revolutionize Business and Government
By M. Todd Henderson and Salen Churi
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Pp. xvii, 215. $29.99 paperback.
The Trust Revolution provides an account of the role that trust plays in improving human conditions and of how technology can shape that role. These topics can appeal to a broad audience that spans from those interested in the economic success of societies to those curious about the implications of recent technological innovations for human relations. Hence, I believe that the book fits quite nicely with readers of The Independent Review.
The Trust Revolution can appeal to such a broad audience because it brings together two very important issues. On the one hand, the first part of the book, loosely from chapter 1 to chapter 6, resembles and draws from previous work studying the conditions that facilitate human flourishing. In this respect, the book can be linked to work such as Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson’s Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (New York: Crown, 2012).
The second part of the book, on the other hand, studies the implications by Arun Sundararajan (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2016) and by Michael C. Munger (New York: Cambridge University, 2018).
