Importantly, parties to transactions sometimes work deliberately to create a world of high social capital around their transaction. They do this because, with high levels of social capital, they can obtain information about their contracting partners from multiple sources. With these webs of networks, they can enforce their agreements without the help of the courts. And with these webs, they can make credible their promises not to defect. They embed a transaction within a world of high levels of social capital, in other words, to mitigate the effect of the other three factors.