The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life

By A. Vogel. 2004

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The Relevance of the Concepts of Formality and Informality: A Theoretical Appraisal (2005, background): “In developed countries, contracts are also supported by trust and cooperative and reputational self-reinforcing mechanisms in parallel with government-enforced laws (Seabright 2004).”
Entrepreneurship in Russia and China: The Impact of Formal Institutional Voids (2010, background): “With the Open Door Policy came the need to transact with strangers (Seabright, 2004), and to do so under a reform regime that offered little guidance on what might be appropriate norms of behavior.”
Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation (2012, background): “That risk is never trivial: forager societies are very cooperative, but with very high rates of interpersonal violence (Seabright 2010).”
Cultural-economy and cities (2007, background): “Most recently, economic historians such as Seabright (2004) have argued that the remarkable possibility of intimacy among strangers in the modern economy, depending as it does on high levels of blind allegiance to certain market givens by multitudes of economic actors who do not know each other,…”
The evolutionary ecology of despotism (2005, background): “The evolution of complex societies was structured in many ways by the development of complex economies involving extreme specialization and elaborate systems of exchange (Seabright, 2004).”
Feeling Duped: Emotional, Motivational, and Cognitive Aspects of Being Exploited by Others (2007, background): “Humans evolved to be willing to participate in such interactions in a degree unprecedented in other species, and much to their general benefit (e.g., Seabright, 2004).”
Sixteen common misconceptions about the evolution of cooperation in humans (2011, background): “More complex and unique mechanisms to enforce cooperation have arisen in humans, such as contracts, laws, justice, trade and social norms, leading to incredible feats such as the extreme division of labour that keeps large cities or nations going (Binmore, 1994, 1998, 2005b; Boyd & Richerson, 1992; ”
Craniofacial Feminization, Social Tolerance, and the Origins of Behavioral Modernity (2014, background): “In this context, cooperation and the formation of extensive social bonds would become a risk-avoidance strategy, promoting social tolerance toward unrelated and unfamiliar individuals, drastically extending the reach of social networks (Ambrose 2010; Hill et al. 2011; Seabright 2004).”
Context Matters: Institutions and Entrepreneurship (2012, background): “Indeed, innovation has been a strong driving force in the survival and success of the human race over the course of its evolution and consequently that disposition is arguably present in all societies (see Seabright (2005) and Field (2007)).”
The value of distrust (2008, background): “…1999) or because one draws inferences about the other from the nature of the situation (e.g., the presence of temptations to defect, the lack of inducements to reciprocate, or the absence of a binding commitment; e.g., King-Casas et al., 2005; Seabright, 2004; Yamagishi, Cook, & Watabe, 1998).”
The Emergence of Service Science: Toward Systematic Service Innovations to Accelerate Co‐Creation of Value (2008, background): “One other major area that should not be neglected in this discussion of service science research questions deals with results from historical economics as well as experimental economics related to perceptions of trust and fairness (Seabright 2004).”
Reply to comments. Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation: The Interdependence Hypothesis (2012, background): “That risk is never trivial: forager societies are very cooperative, but with very high rates of interpersonal violence (Seabright 2010).”