Paul Seabright’s career reads less like a straight line and more like an open network—precisely the kind he studies. An economist by training, a naturalist by instinct, and a social scientist by curiosity, he has spent his life following the threads that connect markets to minds, and cooperation to evolution. Raised in the U.K. and educated at Oxford, Seabright began in the traditional world of economics, but his questions soon outgrew its boundaries. Why do strangers trust
