Paul Seabright

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies(24), Merger and Competition Analysis(23), Corporate Finance and Governance(17), Religion, Society, and Development(17), Economic Policies and Impacts(16)

Publications250 total

Faith-Based Platforms
SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository·2026
The evolution of zero-sum and positive-sum worldviews
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Book Review: <i>The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx</i> by David Lay Williams WilliamsDavid Lay, <i>The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx</i> , Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2024; 424 pp., 1 b/w illus.; 9780691171975, £30.00 (hbk)
European History Quarterly·2025
The Divine Economy
Journal of Economics Management and Religion·2025
Colin Mayer, Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix Them
Society·2025
Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress
Society·2024
On the origins of enchantment: not such a puzzle
2023
Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Inequality
Society·2023
Conformity in mate choice, the overlooked social component of animal and human culture
Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society·2022· 12 citedOpen Access
The old boy network: are the professional networks of female executives less effective than men's for advancing their careers?
Journal of Institutional Economics·2022· 12 cited
What Do Parents Want? Parental Spousal Preferences in China
Economic Development and Cultural Change·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Joint Ownership of Production Projects as a Commitment Device against Interest Groups
SSRN Electronic Journal·2022Open Access
Replication Data for: What Do Parents Want? Parental Spousal Preferences in China
Harvard Dataverse·2021Open Access
Betting on the lord: Lotteries and religiosity in Haiti
World Development·2021· 2 citedOpen Access
Gender differences in social interactions
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization·2021· 52 citedOpen Access
Favoring your in-group can harm both them and you: Ethnicity and public goods provision in China
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization·2021· 17 cited
Establishment and Outsiders: Can Political Incorrectness and Social Extremism Work as a Signal of Commitment to Populist Policies?
SSRN Electronic Journal·2021Open Access
Trust in the image of God: Links between religiosity and reciprocity in Haiti
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics·2021
The Goodness Paradox: <i>The Strange Relationship between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution</i> by Richard Wrangham
Common Knowledge·2021
Evaluating social contract theory in the light of evolutionary social science
Evolutionary Human Sciences·2021· 24 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Damien Neven(8), Wendy Carlin(7), Steven Fries(5), Mark E. Schaffer(5), Bertin Martens(4), Uwe Mummert(4), Peter Murrell(4), Patrick Rey(4), Marc Ivaldi(3), Bruno Jullien(3), Jean Tirole(3), Alena Ledeneva(3), Caroline Humphrey(2), Simon Commander(2), Dalia Marin(2), Diane Coyle(2), Mathias Dewatripont(2), Robin Nuttall(2), Guido Friebel(2), Marie Lalanne(2)