ISBN:
9781400834785
,
1400834783
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xvii, 376 pages)
,
illustrations, map
Edition:
2nd ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Seabright, Paul Company of strangers
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Economics Sociological aspects
;
Social capital (Sociology)
;
Sociobiology
;
Strangers
;
Trust
;
Economics Sociological aspects
;
Business Management
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
HISTORY ; Social History
;
Economics ; Sociological aspects
;
Social capital (Sociology)
;
Sociobiology
;
Strangers
;
Trust
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
