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NunyaBidness | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 I'll bet the Jews have a 3000 year old system for finance that depends on relational trust and I'm sure it has a name but damned if I know what it is. Might come in handy.
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Lux | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It was predominantly the Knights Templar who popularised modern-day banking and credit system.
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Lee | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 On enforcing the second part (don't lie) immediate thoughts for examples of organizations which succeeded for a time on this:
-Merchants of Venice (family ties)
-Medici and other banks
-Hanseatic league for trade
-UK's use of royal charters
-and, of course, every religious or social in-group/out-group paradigm (where ostracism or shunning is a thing). 

Key to all of these, I think, may be that last part... the collective will to exclude based on bad behavior -or- perhaps also just not being part of the in-group.

This has got me wondering whether only an inherently "exclusionary" organization can get closer to enforcing honesty...