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pp. 96–7 ‘Capuchin monkeys and chimpanzees are just as resentful of unfair treatment’. Brosnan, S. 2008. Fairness and other-regarding preferences in nonhuman primates. In Zak, P. (ed.) 2008. Moral Markets. Princeton University Press.
p. 97 ‘the more people trust each other in a society, the more prosperous that society is’. Zak, P. and Knack, S. 2001. Trust and growth. Economic Journal 111:295–321.
p. 99 ‘John Clippinger draws an optimistic conclusion’. Clippinger, J.H. 2007. A Crowd of One. Public Affairs Books.
p. 99 ‘as Robert Wright has argued’. Wright, R. 2000. Non Zero: the Logic of Human Destiny. Pantheon.
p. 101 ‘Michael Shermer thinks that is because in most of the Stone Age it was true’. Shermer, M. 2007. The Mind of the Market. Times Books.
p. 101 ‘incredible augmentation of the pots and pans of the country’. Quoted in O’Rourke, P.J. 2007. On The Wealth of Nations. Atlantic Monthly Press.
p. 102 ‘said the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2008’. Spectator, 24 September. 2008.
p. 102 ‘As the Australian economist Peter Saunders argues’. Saunders, P. 2007. Why capitalism is good for the soul. Policy Magazine 23:3–9.
p. 102 ‘Brink Lindsey writes’. Lindsey, B. 2007. The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America’s Politics and Culture. Collins.
p. 102 ‘Arnold Toynbee, lecturing working men on the English industrial revolution which had so enriched them’. Quoted in Phillips, A. and Taylor, B. 2009. On Kindness. Hamish Hamilton.
p. 103 ‘In 2009 Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor argued’. Phillips, A. and Taylor, B. 2009. On Kindness. Hamish Hamilton.
p. 103 ‘As the British politician Lord Taverne puts it’. Lord Taverne, personal communication.
p. 103 ‘John Padgett at the University of Chicago compiled data on the commercial revolution in fourteenth-century Florence’. Described in Clippinger, J.H. 2007. A Crowd of One. Public Affairs Books.
p. 103 ‘observed Charles, Baron de Montesquieu’. Quoted in Hirschman, A. 1977. The Passions and the Interests. Princeton University Press.
p. 103 ‘David Hume thought commerce “rather favourable to liberty”’. McFarlane, A. 2002. David Hume and the political economy of agrarian civilization. History of European Ideas 27:79–91.
p. 104 ‘The rapid commercialisation of lives since 1800 has coincided with an extraordinary improvement in human sensibility’. Pinker, S. 2007. A history of violence. The New Republic, 19 March 2007.
p. 105 ‘it was the nouveau-riche merchants, with names like Wedgwood and Wilberforce, who financed and led the anti-slavery movement’. Desmond, A. and Moore, J. 2009. Darwin’s Sacred Cause. Allen Lane.
p. 105 ‘Far from being a vice,’ says Eamonn Butler’. Butler, E. 2008. The Best Book on the Market. Capstone.
p. 105 ‘When shown a photograph of an attractive man’. Miller, G. 2009. Spent. Heinemann.
p. 106 ‘As Michael Shermer comments’. Shermer, M. 2007. The Mind of the Market. Times Books.
p. 106 ‘your chances of being murdered have fallen steadily since the seventeenth century in every European country’. Eisner, M. 2001. Modernization, self-control and lethal violence. The long-term dynamics of European homicide rates in theoretical perspective. British Journal of Criminology 41:618–38.
p. 106 ‘Murder was ten times as common before the industrial revolution in Europe, per head of population, as it is today.’ See also Spierenburg, P. 2009. A History of Murder. Polity Press.
p. 106 ‘the environmental Kuznets curve’. Yandle, B., Bhattarai, M. and Vijayaraghavan, M. 2004. Environmental Kuznets Curves. PERC.
p. 106 ‘when per capita income reaches about $4,000, people demand a clean-up of their local streams and air’. Goklany, I. 2008. The Improving State of the World. Cato Institute.
p. 107 ‘because people were enriching themselves and demanding higher standards’. Moore, S. and Simon, J. 2000. It’s Getting Better All the Time. Cato Institute.
p. 107 ‘The “long tail” of the distribution’. Anderson, C. 2006. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More. Hyperion.