Liars and outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive

Bruce Schneier

384 pages, parution le 02/02/2012

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Résumé

How does society function when you can't trust everyone? When we think about trust, we naturally think about personal relationships or bank vaults. That's too narrow. Trust is much broader, and much more important. Nothing in society works without trust. It's the foundation of communities, commerce, democracy-everything.

In this insightful and entertaining book, Schneier weaves together ideas from across the social and biological sciences to explain how society induces trust. He shows how trust works and fails in social settings, communities, organizations, countries, and the world.

In today's hyper-connected society, understanding the mechanisms of trust is as important as understanding electricity was a century ago. Issues of trust and security are critical to solving problems as diverse as corporate responsibility, global warming, and our moribund political system. After reading Liars and Outliers, you'll think about social problems, large and small, differently.

L'auteur - Bruce Schneier

BRUCE SCHNEIER is an internationally renowned security technologist who studies the human side of security. A prolific author, he has written hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers, as well as eleven books that together have sold more than 400,000 copies. He has testified before Congress, is a frequent guest on television and radio, and is regularly quoted in the press. His blog and monthly newsletter at www.schneier.com reach over 250,000 devoted readers worldwide.

Sommaire

1 Overview

PART I THE SCIENCE OF TRUST

2 A Natural History of Security

3 The Evolution of Cooperation

4 A Social History of Trust

5 Societal Dilemmas

PART II A MODEL OF TRUST

6 Societal Pressures

7 Moral Pressures

8 Reputational Pressures

9 Institutional Pressures

10 Security Systems

PART III THE REAL WORLD

11 Competing Interests

12 Organizations

13 Corporations

14 Institutions

PART IV CONCLUSIONS

15 How Societal Pressures Fail

16 Technological Advances

17 The Future

Notes

References

Acknowledgments

Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Bruce Schneier
Parution	02/02/2012
Nb. de pages	384
Couverture	Relié
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781118143308
ISBN13	978-1-1181-4330-8