Jamal Awil

← Trust and Trustworthiness

Trust persists because future interactions incentivize good behavior. [causal]

Hence the main incentive that one faces in a particular exchange in which one is trusted by the other is the potential benefit from continuing the series of interactions. The sanction each of us has against the other is to withdraw from further interaction.

Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, loc. 124