Tao Te Ching
Paul Seabright
1958 CE –
Author and British Professor of Economics
Each generation needs a champion of ancient wisdom, a translator of insight into modern terms, and someone to continue the axial-age discussions. Paul Seabright looks likely to evolve in these directions. A philosopher and professor of economics in France, India, and the UK; he consults for governments, corporations, and organizations like the World Bank, the United Nations, and the European Commission. His current research focuses on competition policy issues, network economics, and behavioral economics—the integration of evolutionary biology into the development of economic institutions.
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Quotes by Paul Seabright (9 quotes)
“Each of us is descended from innumerable generations of men who lied, cheated, charmed, bullied, or killed their way to sexual intercourse, and from innumerable generations of women who charmed, seduced, lied, or manipulated their way to extracting economic privileges in return for access to their bodies.”
from War of the Sexes
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“Sex is about danger as well as about tenderness: the two are inseparable, and they are what has made us such a tender and dangerous species.”
from War of the Sexes
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“Her 21st century rational brain wonders why sex is such a big deal to him, not understanding that to his Pleistocene emotions it's not just a big deal—it's the only deal.”
from War of the Sexes
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“Even the fact that we have nothing to hide can be something we have good reason to hide.”
from War of the Sexes
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“Self-deception may be a natural by-product of features of brain organization that help us deceive others... flourishing in precisely the areas of life where these costs matter most: in business, in politics, and in love.”
from War of the Sexes
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“there is a startling discrepancy between the vast amounts of time and energy [we] devote to thinking, talking, and agonizing about sex and the microscopic amounts of time and energy we devote to actually engaging in it.”
from War of the Sexes
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“If an understanding of biology can sometimes make us feel we are the victims of our inheritance, an understanding of economics shows that we an adapt the inheritance to shape our future.”
from War of the Sexes
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“Our emotions and desires are shortcuts that allow humans to economize on expensive brain tissue and steer us in directions that have proved advantageous for us in the past. Our taste for sugar, for instance, was a reliable guide to adaptive eating in the Pleistocene era, but in the very different conditions of modern life, it threatens us with obesity and diabetes.”
from War of the Sexes
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“We all want contradictory things: to be successful and to be protected, to choose our partners and to be chosen by them, to be passionate and to be reasonable, to be forceful and to be tender, to make shrewd choices and to be seduced.”
from War of the Sexes
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