Reading Notes on Dasgupta, "Economics: A Very Short Introduction": Trust
Discussion Questions:
- About what fraction of our wealth is the result of--or, perhaps, is enabled by--our collective ability to engage in a very large distribution of labor (rather than requiring that each extended household be close to self-sufficient)?
- What are the possible ways of creating the "trust" needed for a small-scale--within the village or within the herding band, say--distribution of labor?
- What are the possible ways of creating the "trust" needed for a large-scale division of labor?
- What, in the world we see around us, turn out to be the most important ways of creating the "trust" needed to maintain a large-scale division of labor?
