Liars And Outliers by Bruce Schneier
Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
A compact exploration of how societies produce cooperation and curb cheating by combining incentives, social norms, reputation, markets, law, and technical controls; it argues that security is fundamentally about aligning individual self-interest with collective interest, balancing the costs of trust and enforcement, and designing institutions and technologies that change economic incentives and reduce the opportunity for abuse. Drawing on economics, game theory, history, and security practice, it shows how different mechanisms — from informal norms to centralized authorities and cryptographic tools — complement one another and how trade-offs and unintended consequences shape real-world security solutions.
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- 2012
- Nationality
- American
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- Pages
- 336 pages
- Original Language
- English
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