The Company of Strangers A Natural History of Economic Life

I mean, in some ways, this is, I think, Paul Seabright's book, The Company of Strangers.

I like the way Paul Seabright has put this in his book the uh uh in the company of strangers if you put a whole lot of unrelated chimpanzees in a large room together they would be terrified they would be screaming and they would be unable to sit there calmly and I sometimes point this out when I'm in a large auditorium and there's hundreds of people none of them related I said is anybody here scared to death no no no we're not we're we trust each other that human trust is the key to civilization and to science and it's under attack right now with artificial intelligence and misrepresentation and the the technologies of misrepresentation which are eroding trust in a very serious way