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The Company of Strangers (4.00 / 2)

Can I recommend a book by the professor in Economics at Toulouse University, which deals precisely with these issues of a wider network around economics?

The Company of Strangers
. By Paul Seabright.

See for example This review
(in French) which says the theme of the book is

(Comment la vie sociale est-elle possible ? Comment une telle organisation du travail, faisant dépendre de façon cruciale la vie de chacun d'étrangers distants, peut-elle fonctionner ? L'auteur nous convie donc à une histoire naturelle de la coopération humaine qui fait la vie économique et la spécificité de notre espèce..)

(How is social life possible ? How can such a pattern of work organisation function, in which the life of each person is crucially dependent on distant strangers ? The author lays out for us a natural history of human co-operation which is made up of economic life and the specific characteristics of our species.) My translation - apologies for any infelicities.

One chapter deals approvingly with precisely the kind of enriching activities as the socially active rural postal staff discussed here.

This book is definitely within the `Liberal Tradition' that gets so many sneering references on Eurotrib, but I suspect some will be surprised by its material and approach.

What do people here think?

by saugatojas on Sun Mar 25th, 2007 at 10:07:32 AM EST

Re: The Company of Strangers (4.00 / 2)

This book is definitely within the `Liberal Tradition' that gets so many sneering references on Eurotrib

You know, it's not the liberal tradition that gets sneering references, but the version currently promoted (in steamroller fashion) by partisans that ignore the tradition. We are mostly careful to call them neolibs rather than liberals.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Mar 26th, 2007 at 05:06:48 AM EST
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