kaal:claim:3782193-033

Reputation permits business with any member of a network regardless of personal acquaintance, but only if the network is closed and its size is limited by the ability to police reputation with the available information technology.

Source quote, verbatim

First, reputation allows business dealings with any member of the network, regard- less of personal acquaintance. This requires the network to be closed, however, with a size limited by the ability to police reputation using the information technology available.

From

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021), Maghribi traders’ solution, p. 27
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193 · source PDF

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193

Holds when

reputation-based networks
network must be closed
size bounded by available information technology

Classification

conditionsupport: arguedreputationgovernance-design

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