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Title: worth sticking with it
Review: I nearly gave up on this book at a little over the half way point. While he explores a number of interesting angles in the first half, it seems that all of them end up being blind alleys. It was worth staying with it, because his final answer comes (perhaps surprisingly) not out of biology or game theory, but anthropology. The first half is educational and interesting in its own right, but the latter half of the book is where he gets to his real points.It's true that he does allude to political anarchism, or perhaps mini-anarchism, which I do not agree with (and which he does not make a particularly good case for anyway). But he does lay out a good case for free markets, which some of us strongly agree with.Warning, if your political/philosophical leanings are at all left/socialist, you probably won't like this book very well....
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