For the ethereal, deep thinking crowd, a new book, "The Company of Strangers," marvels at how "shy, murderous apes" - humans -
developed co-operative networks of staggering scope and complexity—networks that rely on trust among strangers. When you come to think about it, it was an extraordinarily improbable outcome.
http://www.economist.com/finance/displaySt...tory_id=3084745
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