Baier (1986, 251) thinks the prisoner’s dilemma is overemphasized in discussions of moral philosophy and that this is especially a mistake for discussion of trust. However, she has an unduly formal view of the prisoner’s dilemma as inherently fitted to contracts and fixed payoffs. It is because many relations have the prisoner’s dilemma structure that trust is at issue in them.

XREF: Connects to game theory and social contract literature on trust, and the author's defense of the prisoner's dilemma against Baier's critique.

Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, loc. 908