与其说这是一本经济学著作,不如说这是一本以经济学视角解读人类行为的社会著作。至少作者也是披着研究社会的外衣,来讲述经济的故事。《陌生人群——一部经济生活的自然史》在引言中就开宗明义地指出:现代社会只是一个偶然的试验,人类在没有以任何方式同陌生人交往之前便开始了心理上的进化,从而形成了这一试验的基础。作者认为从对陌生人保持高度警惕到开始相信陌生人,就是 This is not so much a book of economics as it is a social book that interprets human behavior from an economic point of view. At least the author is also dressed in the cloak of research society, to tell the story of the economy. “The stranger, a natural history of economic life,” states clearly in the introduction that modern society is merely a coincidence that human beings have begun to evolve psychologically before they interact with strangers in any way, The basis of this experiment. The author believes that from the high vigilance of strangers to begin to believe strangers, that is