Paul Seabright

Paul Seabright is British Professor of Economics in the Industrial Economics Institute and the Toulouse School of Economics. His The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life (Princeton University Press, 2004) was hailed as “brilliant” by Martin Wolf in the Financial Times. The Wars of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to Present (Princeton University Press, 2012) was called “witty, informative and cogent” by Jonathan Rée for The Guardian.

His latest book, The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power and People, will be published by Princeton University Press this month. Writing in a nonpartisan spirit, Seabright uses insights from economics to show how religion and secular society can work together in a world where some people feel no need for religion, but many continue to respond with enthusiasm to its call.