The People's Economics

The book starts with a look at the concept of trust. A trust of others is necessary for most of the things we want to do, but it's complicated. Those closest to us we trust out of confidence in them. For others it is more that we expect that society will penalise them if they abuse our trust and we know that gives them a good reason not to. But, then again, sometimes it is good for people to break with societal norms, in order to move society forward. The book looks to have an academic slant, spending quite a while defining terms at the start, but I'm hoping that it will be readable by the non-specialist.