In the July 2013 issue of Contemporary Sociology, Jessica L. Collett reviews our book, Whom Can We Trust? (2009). Edited by Karen S. Cook, Margaret Levi, and Russell Hardin, the volume was published as part of the Foundation's series on trust, which aimed to improve our understanding of the role of trust and trustworthiness in establishing cooperative behavior in a variety of settings. Collett praises the volume for "generating an interdisciplinary dialogue" on this crucial subject:

The editors do a wonderful job setting the stage for the cross-disciplinary exploration of trust and trustworthiness in the introduction.They highlight the rich history of trust and its multidisciplinary roots and set forth the current collection's thesis: social scientists and policymakers must step back from touting the virtues of trust and try to better understand the sources and corollaries of such trust and trust's implications across social contexts.

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With contributions from sociologists, economists, political scientists, psychologists, and others, this collection illustrates the expansive hold that trust has taken across social science disciplines. It accomplishes the main goal the authors set forth, to add nuance to our understanding of trust and to consider the contextual nature of both trust and trustworthiness. It also highlights the need for more interdisciplinarity in research. While there is a bit of cross-disciplinary dialogue in this volume, there could be more, and there certainly should be in future research. Cook, Levi, and Hardin paved the way for such endeavors.

Read Colllet's review here (subscription required). You can also read the introduction of Whom We Can Trust for free.