The Company of Strangers - Paul Seabright
A Natural History of Economic Life
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KORTE INHOUD
Human beings are the only species in nature to have developed an elaborate division of labor between strangers. Even something as simple as buying a shirt depends on an astonishing web of interaction and organization that spans the world. But unlike that other uniquely human attribute, language, our ability to cooperate with strangers did not evolve gradually through our prehistory. Only 10,000 years ago--a blink of an eye in evolutionary time--humans hunted in bands, were intensely suspicious of strangers,...
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2004 Uitgever: Princeton University Press 320 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0691118213 ISBN-13: 9780691118215Koop dit boek tweedehands
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