The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life - Revised EditionThe Company of Strangers shows us the remarkable strangeness, and fragility, of our everyday lives. This completely revised and updated edition includes a new chapter analyzing how the rise and fall of social trust explain the unsustainable boom in the global economy over the past decade and the financial crisis that succeeded it. |
Contents
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From Murderous Apes to Honorary Friends How Is Human Cooperation Possible? | 35 |
Unintended Consequences From Family Bands to Industrial Cities | 155 |
Collective Action From Belligerent States to a Marketplace of Nations | 269 |
Notes | 317 |
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The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life Paul Seabright No preview available - 2010 |