Larks comments on Be a little bit more trusting than most people think sensible - Less Wrong

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 28 May 2013 10:12:43AM 1 point [-]

Quite a bit of econometric research (yea, it's not the best, but it's what we have) shows that positive levels of trust correlate with higher economic growth.

Has anyone factored out the correlation to positive levels of trustworthiness?

Comment author: Larks 28 May 2013 11:09:30AM 0 points [-]

Yes, this seems to be the key issue. There's a clear causal mechanism that would lead higher levels of trustworthiness to lead to higher growth, but unwarranted trust sounds like asking for someone else to steal your GDP tokens.