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The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research

The book is now out (Carlos Cañon, Guido Friebel and I have a chapter in it which you can download here). The book’s web page is here.

EDGE Symposium on Napoleon Chagnon

The Symposium is now live here

Parlez-moi d’amour

Emission au sujet de Sexonomics à la radio belge RBTF avec la charmante Gabrielle Stefanski. Vous pouvez la réécouter ici.

On n’arrête pas l’Eco

Le numéro “Plâteau de fêtes” de cette émission a cité Sexonomics et La Société des Inconnus. Vous pouvez réécouter l’émission ici, à partir d’à peu près 18 minutes 30 jusqu’à 25 minutes environ.

Les carnets de l’économie

Quatre chroniques émises dans la semaine du 17 décembre 2012 autour des thèmes de Sexonomics.

Première chronique: “Inégalités économiques entre hommes et femmes: sommes-nous restés des primates?”

Deuxième chronique: “Comment les hommes et les femmes cultivent leurs réseaux dans les entreprises”

 

Dream Girl wins third prize in Virgin Media Shorts competition

Dream Girl is the title of a short film by my daughter Alice Seabright that has won third prize in the Virgin Media Shorts 2012 competition.

The details, along with the 13 shortlisted films, can be seen here. All films are under 2 minutes and 20 seconds long.

 

Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse

We have a new website – find it here.

La Vie Rêvée d’Ernesto G

La Vie Rêvée d’Ernesto G, par Jean-Michel Guenassia. Published September 2012 by Albin Michel.

Very interesting second novel by the author of Le Club des Incorrigibles Optimistes. Joseph K, born in Prague in 1910, studies medicine and goes to work in Algiers for the Institut Pasteur but has to hide in the malaria-infested southern countryside when the German occupiers begin rounding up Jews. After the War he returns to Prague and becomes a convinced communist. This tale of his gradual disillusionment takes a curious turn when he has to look after a Latin American patient who turns out to be none other than Che Guevara, who begins to be charmed by Joseph’s own daughter. The prose is sometimes slow, and the the plot constructions doesn’t have the same taut architecture as the earlier novel, but it is still a fascinating encounter with some of the twentieth century’s most poignant themes – tenderness, loss and betrayal among those who are caught in the hurricane of historical events.

Press and Reviews for The War of the Sexes

Picture credit: Boardroom battles….. The Apprentice. Photograph: BBC/PA Photo, from the review in The Guardian.

December 2013 update: Martin Wolf has chosen The War of the Sexes as one of his books of the year in the Financial Times:

“With characteristic brilliance, Seabright uses biology, sociology, anthropology and economics to explain the war of the sexes. Men and women must co-operate to bring their offspring to maturity and conflict is inherent. Yet today opportunities for more successful and equal relations between the sexes are greater than ever before.”

Other reviews:

In chronological order of appearance:

John Whitfield in Nature.

A favorable but somewhat surrealistically inaccurate review by Roger Lewis in the Daily Mail.

Jonathan Rée in The Guardian

Fran Hawthorne in The New York Journal of Books

Camilla Power in Times Higher Education

Alexander Delaigue in Liberation (in French)

Publishers’ Weekly

Anna Cristina Pertierra in Inside Story

Joshi Herrmann in The London Evening Standard

Michele Pridmore-Brown in the Times Literary Supplement, available here (pdf here)

Elaine Graham-Leigh in Counterfire

 

Some reactions in the blogosphere:

Jason Collins

Diane Coyle

Arnold Kling

Jake Seliger

Sander Van Der Linden in LSE Review of Books

 

My post at the Huffington Post blog

 

Interviews, other coverage:

The Financial Security Project at Boston College

The page 99 test

BBC Nightwaves, the interview runs from the 23 minutes point and lasts 11 minutes

VoxEU interview

The Moncrieff Show on Newstalk Radio Ireland, section 4, around 9 minutes in

Writers Read

 

 

 

 

Sexonomics

Sexonomics est le titre de la traduction française de The War of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present (Princeton UP 2012), qui a été publiée par Editions Alma le 4 octobre 2012.

Il y a eu une conférence de lancement le 16 octobre à Sciences Po Paris.

Des critiques dans la presse française on apparu ici:

Livres Hebdo, 29/09/2012

Le Monde Economie: Les LIvres de la Rentrée, 22/10/2012

Par rapport à l’édition anglais, Sexonomics a une bibliographie réduite, mais la bibliographie complète sera disponible ici.

Voici aussi quelques documents cités dans la bibliographie et difficilement disponibles ailleurs:

A.T. Kearney: Africa Mobile Observatory Full report 2011

A.T. Kearney Asia Pacific Mobile Observatory Full report 2011

Le titre Sexonomics a été utilisé par un livre anglais et un site web du même nom, tenu par le Dr. Adalbert Lallier, que vous pouvez trouver ici.

Ce titre est le sujet d’une marque déposée aux USA et au Canada. Même si le propriétaire ne détient pas de marque en France je reconnais volontiers la priorité de son utilisation du titre, et je vous recommande la visite de son site pour apprécier son approche originale et particulière.

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