A brilliant book. Martin Wolf, Financial Times The Company of Strangers is a model of how different disciplines can enrich each other to explain human progress. George Peden, Times Literary Supplement [A] clear, thought-provoking, and elegant book. Howard Davies, Times Higher Education Why is everyday life so strange? Because, explains Mr. Seabright, it is so much at odds with what would have seemed, as recently as 10,000 years ago, our evolutionary destiny. Economist An important and timely book. . . . It starts in the mists of prehistory but ends emphatically in the here and now. Giles Whittell, Times A welcome and important contribution. . . . The Company of Strangers exemplifies a new breed of economic analysis, seeking answers to fundamental questions wherever they are found and ignoring disciplinary boundaries. . . . It is highly readable and will be accessible to a wide audience. bert Gintis," Nature There seems to be no place where Seabright is a stranger. He obviously feels as much at home among classical economists as among evolutionary biologists, quotes modern literature and ancient history with equal aplomb, jumps from experimental psychology to political philosophy and draws liberally on his personal memories of places from Ukraine to India. . . . [His] book is obviously not meant as an exercise in planned economy, but as an excursion, without blinkers and without apprehension, through a tumultuous crowd of ideas. Karl Sigmund Read more... ReadMore and Download
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