Reputation has been shown to provide an informal solution to the problem of cooperation in
human societies. After reviewing models that connect reputations and cooperation, we …

Established economic practices and social relations currently face the pressures of what has
recently become known as the platform economy (Kenney & Zysman, 2016). The word …

Many democratic societies currently struggle with issues around knowledge: fake news,
distrust of experts, a fear of technocratic tendencies. In Citizen Knowledge, Lisa Herzog …

The emergence of large-scale cooperation in humans poses a major puzzle for the social
and behavioural sciences. Reputation formation—individuals' ability to share information …

Signaling theory is concerned with situations of strategic interdependence in which one
actor (the sender) aims at persuading another actor (the receiver) of a fact the receiver does …

In illicit online markets, actors are pseudonymous, legal institutions are absent, and
predation is ripe. The literature proposes that problems of trust are solved by reputation …

Background The pricing of illicit drugs is typically approached within the risks and prices
framework. Recent sociological and economic studies of prices in online drug markets have …

Digital platforms pervade contemporary societies, but sociology currently lacks a general
concept for investigating them. Platforms combine technology and organizational elements …

Reputation systems promote cooperation in large-scale online markets for illegal goods.
These so-called cryptomarkets operate on the Dark Web, where legal, social, and moral trust …

The premise of this book is that research into gossip, organization, and work is an important
idea whose time has come. A key feature of the book is the inclusion of 'practice points' …