Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Customer's Trustworthiness

by Heather Hamill and Diego Gambetta

Book Overview

A taxi driver's life is dangerous work. Picking up a bad customer can leave the driver in a vulnerable position, and erring even once can prove fatal. To protect themselves, taxi drivers must quickly and accurately assess the trustworthiness of complete strangers. In Streetwise, Diego Gambetta and Heather Hamill take this predicament as a prototypical example of many trust decisions, where people must act on limited information and judge another person's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871543095
• ISBN13: 9780871543097
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"