数字信任的经济学分析

An Economic Analysis of Digital Trust

信任一直在人类发展中起着重要作用,但由于其产生和应用机制的复杂性,至今仍游离在正统经济学分析框架之外。作为“信任制造机器”的区块链技术诞生后,彻底改变了传统信任运行体系,使得信任运行变得有迹可循。与现有将区块链信任直接嫁接到特定产品或组织内部的实践和理论研究不同,文章认为区块链融入实体经济的切入点应该在劳动力市场。与劳动力和人力资本类似,信任是决定劳动者价值的“第三维度”,因此,文章从经济学角度分析数字信任,进而创造性地提出了“信任资本”概念。区块链技术通过提升劳动者“信任资本”的方式,形成信任差异化的劳动力市场,进而导致产品差异化市场,最终实现区块链信任和实体经济的有效结合。

Trust has always played an important role in the development of human beings,but due to the complexity of its gen-eration and application mechanism,it has remained outside the framework of orthodox economic analysis.The birth of block-chain technology as a“trust-making machine”has revolutionized the traditional trust system and made the operation of trust to be traceable.Compared with the existing practical and theoretical studies that directly graft blockchain to specific products or organizations,this paper argues that the entry point for integrating blockchain trust into the real economy should be in the labor market.Similar to labor and human capital,trust is the“third dimension”that determines the value of workers.There-fore,this article analyzes digital trust from an economic perspective and creatively proposes the concept of“trust capital”.Blockchain technology,by enhancing the“trust capital”of workers,forms a labor market with trust differentiation,which in turn leads to a differentiated product market,and finally achieves the combination of blockchain trust and real economy.