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Trust and Power: Two Works
Luhmann, Niklas. Trust and Power: Two Works. Translated by Howard Davis, John Raffan, and Kathryn Rooney. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 1979.
Why this matters here
Luhmann’s Trust and Power analyzes trust as a social mechanism for reducing complexity so cooperation can proceed without complete information. How Trust Forms opens from that insight: people join teams, hire, and commit long before certainty arrives, so trust is not merely knowledge delayed. The source is a systems-theoretic account of trust and power; the book asks how trust forms beside uncertainty rather than after it disappears.
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