The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life
- ISBN-10
- 0691118213
- ISBN-13
- 9780691118215
- Series
- The Company of Strangers
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Author
- Paul Seabright
Description
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 the rise and fall of social trust resulted in the financial crisis. Original.
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