Design Economics Podcast with Vinny Tafuro · Institute for Economic Evolution, Inc.
EP 13 Pam Shockley-Zalabak: The Trust Deficit: Economics' Costly Blind Spot
·55 min·3 clips
We found five stable drivers of trust that hold across cultures: openness, competence, concern, reliability, and identification.
As heard by us
A strong case for treating trust as economic infrastructure.
This episode frames trust as economic infrastructure rather than a soft extra. Dr. Pamela Shockley-Zalabak makes the case that social capital belongs in the economics conversation, tying the 50-year decline in social trust to the way markets and democracies hold together.
Why you'd press play
You want trust treated as an economic blind spot, with social capital in the frame.
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