Books written by Paul Seabright
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The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life - Revised Edition
On the Nature and Significance of Economic Science. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Robson, Arthur. 2001. The biological basis of economic behavior. Journal of Economic Literature 39:11–33. Robson, Arthur, and Hillard S. Kaplan. 2003.
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The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life
On the evidence that men are, on average, more violent than women, see Daly & Wilson 1988, Wrangham & Peterson 1996, Barash & Lipton 2002, and Ghiglieri 1999; Barash 2002 provides a summary. Needless to say, all such comparisons are ...
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The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life
Explores how humans' evolved ability of abstract reasoning has allowed such institutions as money, markets, cities and the banking system to provide a foundation of social trust, in a revised edition that has a new chapter explaining how ...
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The Company Of Strangers: A Natural History Of Economic Life
The Company Of Strangers: A Natural History Of Economic Life
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Merger in Daylight: The Economics and Politics of European Merger Control
In 1989 the European Council of Ministers approved a Regulation establishing a new system of merger control for the European Community. This is the first independent review of the EC...
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The Economic Regulation of Broadcasting Markets: Evolving Technology and Challenges for Policy
At the same time, digital encoding makes it possible to charge prices for content that had previously been broadcast for free. This is creating new markets where none existed before. How should public policy respond?
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The War of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present
In The War of the Sexes, Paul Seabright argues that there is—but first we must understand how the tension between conflict and cooperation developed in our remote evolutionary past, how it shaped the modern world, and how it still holds ...
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The Vanishing Rouble: Barter Networks and Non-Monetary Transactions in Post-Soviet Societies
An accessible and authoritative analysis of barter in the former Soviet Union.