Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technique manifests file sharing, distributed computing, and communication. and collaboration between peers in contrast to client/ server architectures. P2P digital society is emerging in our life. It changes our way of living, work, and play. Meanwhile, the trust is still a core issue in P2P digital society. The objective of this paper is to survey trust in P2P digital society from the point of economics view. Through employing the framework previously proposed, some implications on trust in P2P applications are given from the economics perspective. In this paper, we analyze trust emerging in P2P digital society through the economics perspective from the following levels: technology, product, business process, market, and the macroeconomic.
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