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The company of strangers a natural history of economic life

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 financial crisis that succeeded it. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, history, psychology, and literature, Paul Seabright explores how our evolved ability of abstract reasoning has allowed institutions like money, markets, cities, and the banking system to provide the foundations of social trust that we need in our everyday lives. Even the simple acts of buying food and clothing depend on an astonishing web of interaction that spans the globe. How did humans develop the ability to trust total strangers with providing our most basic needs?

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  • "Company of strangers"
  • "一部经济生活的自然史"
  • "Yi bu jing ji sheng huo de zi ran shi"
  • "Company of strangers : a natural history of economic life"

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  • "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 financial crisis that succeeded it. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, history, psychology, and literature, Paul Seabright explores how our evolved ability of abstract reasoning has allowed institutions like money, markets, cities, and the banking system to provide the foundations of social trust that we need in our everyday lives. Even the simple acts of buying food and clothing depend on an astonishing web of interaction that spans the globe. How did humans develop the ability to trust total strangers with providing our most basic needs?"@en
  • "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 financial crisis that succeeded it. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, history, psychology, and literature, Paul Seabright explores how our evolved ability of abstract reasoning has allowed institutions like money, markets, cities, and the banking system to provide the foundations of socia."@en

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  • "陌生人群"
  • "The Company of strangers : a natural history of economic life"
  • "The company of strangers a natural history of economic life"
  • "The company of strangers a natural history of economic life"@en
  • "La société des inconnus : histoire naturelle de la collectivité humaine"
  • "Mo sheng ren qun"
  • "The Company of Strangers a Natural History of Economic Life (Revised Edition)"@en
  • "The company of strangers"
  • "La société des inconnus histoire naturelle de la collectivité humaine"
  • "陌生人群 : 一部经济生活的自然史 = The company of strangers : a natural history of economic life"
  • "Mo sheng ren qun : yi bu jing ji sheng huo de zi ran shi = The company of strangers : a natural history of economic life"
  • "The company of strangers : a natural history of economic life"
  • "The company of strangers : a natural history of economic life"@en
  • "The Company of Strangers : a natural history of economic life"

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