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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Seabright, Paul (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Trust.
Strangers.
Sociobiology.
Social capital (Sociology)
Economics > Sociological aspects.
HISTORY > Social History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Confiance.
Étrangers.
Sociobiologie.
Capital social (Sociologie)
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (400 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9781400834785

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