Coleman (1990, 114) says development of norms with sanctions enhances cooperation. This is also Hobbes' theory: Creation of strong sanctions to protect each from the others makes all better off. In Hobbes' account of the need for a powerful state, what is mainly needed for most people is merely enough security to be able to enter into exchange relations with others without fear of being killed for what one has or merely preemptively to prevent one from stealing from or killing another (Hobbes 1968 , 1.13: 184; Hardin 1991b). Trustworthiness is underwritten by a government that enforces con-

XREF: Connects the Hobbesian state-of-nature as a security enabler to game-theoretic/Coasean framings of trust and cooperation that appear elsewhere in this kind of literature.

Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, loc. 589