In Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village, economist Jennifer Roback Morse explains how the economy, which appears to a series of impersonal exchanges, is actually based upon love. Morse also shows how the political order--Hillary Clinton's "village"--depends...
We come into the world not as rational adults but as babies -- helpless, self-centered, and impulsive. The family must care for children while leading them, as a side effect of loving them, to be trusting and trustworthy -- qualities without which neither individuals nor societies...