Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive

Liars and Outliers is a well-researched and thorough book which builds a clear framework that can be used to understand trust. Schneier explains the development of and motivations for trust in society, and outlines the basic types of societal pressures we apply to people that enable us to trust that others will (usually) act in accordance with the needs of society, including morals, reputation, institutions, and security systems. He clearly explains, with copious examples, the way that actual actors in society respond (or fail to respond!) to these pressures, and how in general these pressures fail. As another reader noted, he doesn't offer a formula to fix the world, but presents a way to think about the issues we need to consider, both when developing secure systems, and thinking about complex societal problems.

A decent read, although I don't think it's Schneier's best work.

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