Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; The importance of trust in exchange; The paradoxes of trust; Existing explanations; Research questions and framework; Outline of the study; 2 Theory; Exchange and trust; Co-evolving trust and exchange systems: The implication of a theory of the system of trust; 3 Methodology; Basic concepts; Evolutionary modeling; Analysis in this study; 4 Emergence of trust; Trust in behavioral interdependence; Trust in evolutionary interdependence; Summary 5 Evolution and the stability of trustThe phenomena of the co-evolution of trust and exchange systems: Trust in barter and monetary economies; Micro-to-macro transition of trust in exchange systems: Trust in different interactive structures and populations; Stability of trust; Summary; 6 Varieties of trust; Theory of stochastic dynamics in Foster and Young (1990): Implication for varieties of changes in trust; Trust in overlapping networks: Noise and varieties of change; Summary; 7 Conclusions; Core contributions; Methodological applications; Implications; Future research directions; Index.