Paul Seabright

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Paul Seabright is a professor of economics at the Toulouse School of Economics in France. He is the author of The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life.

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Microeconomics for All

Chris Van Es

Dec 5, 2013 Paul Seabright criticizes the poverty of the undergraduate microeconomics curriculum.

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Financial History’s False Lessons

Paul Lachine

Aug 3, 2010 Paul Seabright

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America First, Fallout Later

Feb 22, 2019 William L. Silber sees eerie parallels between the Trump era and one of the darker episodes of the 1930s New Deal.

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Business and Biodiversity

Feb 22, 2019 Robert Watson argues that the despoliation of natural systems by global corporations can no longer be kept off the books.

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Iran’s 40 Years of Strife

Feb 21, 2019 Javier Solana argues that engagement with the West is the only strategy that has worked – for both sides.

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Africa’s Digital Generation Gap

Feb 21, 2019 Perseus Mlambo warns that the continent's aged leaders are threatening to stifle the economy of the future.

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The AI Road to Serfdom?

Feb 21, 2019 Robert Skidelsky questions the conventional economic narrative according to which machines inevitably boost workers' incomes.

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What’s Left of the Populist Left?

Feb 21, 2019 Jan-Werner Mueller thinks opponents of neoliberalism have erred by embracing a tribalist political strategy.

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Brexit’s Lost World

Feb 20, 2019 Ngaire Woods argues that three changes since 2016 make a no-deal exit from the EU a threat to the UK's national security.

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Showdown in Munich

Feb 20, 2019 Carl Bildt worries that the latest signals from the US government imply a further unraveling of transatlantic relations.

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