The Company of Strangers : : A Natural History of Economic Life - Revised Edition /

The Company of Strangers : : A Natural History of Economic Life - Revised Edition / / Paul Seabright.

The 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 fin...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Seabright, Paul,
MitwirkendeR:
Dennett, Daniel C.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Revised edition with a New foreword by Daniel C. Dennett
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Trust and Panic: Introduction to the Revised Edition
  • PART I. Tunnel Vision
  • CHAPTER 1. Who's in Charge?
  • Prologue to Part II
  • PART II. From Murderous Apes to Honorary Friends: How Is Human Cooperation Possible?
  • CHAPTER 2. Man and the Risks of Nature
  • CHAPTER 3. Our Violent Past
  • CHAPTER 4. How Have We Tamed Our Violent Instincts?
  • CHAPTER 5. How Did the Social Emotions Evolve?
  • CHAPTER 6. Money and Human Relationships
  • CHAPTER 7. Honor among Thieves: Hoarding and Stealing
  • CHAPTER 8. Honor among Bankers? What Caused the Financial Crisis?
  • CHAPTER 9. Professionalism and Fulfillment in Work and War
  • Epilogue to Parts I and II
  • Prologue to Part III
  • PART III. Unintended Consequences: From Family Bands to Industrial Cities
  • CHAPTER 10. The City, from Ancient Athens to Modern Manhattan
  • CHAPTER 11. Water: Commodity or Social Institution?
  • CHAPTER 12. Prices for Everything?
  • CHAPTER 13. Families and Firms
  • CHAPTER 14. Knowledge and Symbolism
  • CHAPTER 15. Exclusion: Unemployment, Poverty, and Illness
  • Epilogue to Part III
  • Prologue to Part IV
  • PART IV. Collective Action: From Belligerent States to a Marketplace of Nations
  • CHAPTER 16. States and Empires
  • CHAPTER 17. Globalization and Political Action
  • CHAPTER 18. Conclusion: How Fragile Is the Great Experiment?
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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