Fine, but if you are being reciprocal, you can kiss social improvement goodby. Suppose you are a teacher underpaid, kicked by all, and underrespected, it is reciprocal for you to give very few shits about teaching well, but then you can kiss the whole idea to improve education by learning from Finland goodby. Predictably, it can only get worse, not better.
Bootstrapping by fake trust I mean you tell the teacher to do a good work and I promise the parents will respect you and tell the parents respect the teacher and I will promise they will do a good job and the taxpayer I promise if you pay taxes you get services and to the governor I promise you if you provide services they will pay taxes... don't you think such a noble lie could solve coordination problems? Self fulfilling prophecy basically.
I disagree that reciprocity can't solve co-ordination problems. I don't think such a "noble lie" could solve co-ordination problems because I don't see the fundamental problems here as being ones of co-ordination.
You seem to posit that the problem is that the teacher doesn't work hard because she isn't respected, and the parents don't respect the teacher because she doesn't work hard. But think harder. Do parents try and get their children into the classes of the good teachers? Can a teacher with a good reputation charge more money for private le...
I decided to link to this article, because this seems to be all about what Less Wrong is about: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/10/better-time. Out of interest, does anyone know of a good resource for learning more about the training techniques used in elite athletics?