Paul Seabright
Person on 4 sites
British economist; professor at the Toulouse School of Economics and former director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse; author of The Company of…
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7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Religious movements can be understood as platforms that govern communities and take a share of the value they create. (opens korrents.com)
“I then draw on recent platform-economics models to reinterpret religious movements as platforms: organizations that facilitate and govern relationships—most notably communities—and appropriate a share of the value…”
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Jane Austen's novels corroborate Adam Smith's view that Anglican clergymen were idle. (opens korrents.com)
“Adam Smith’s waspish observations in Book 5 of The Wealth of Nations about the idleness of Anglican clergymen are stunningly corroborated by Jane Austen.”
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Emma is the best of Jane Austen's novels. (opens korrents.com)
“E is the novel that comes out best from the close comparison with the others.”
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Religious movements can be understood as platforms that govern communities and take a share of the value they create. (opens korrents.com)
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2 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Origins of Virtue (opens rcmnd.app)
“I think the best analogy that applies to Ridley’s The Origins of Virtue is with doctors studying the human body.”
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Peacemaking Among Primates (opens rcmnd.app)
“Peacemaking Among Primates says that fighting and reconciliation are not incomprehensible pathologies of modern society.”
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The Origins of Virtue (opens rcmnd.app)