Paul Seabright

Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics and a research fellow of CEPR. He was managing editor of Economic Policy and Chair of the Scientific Council at the Brussels think-tank BRUEGEL. He was Professor at the University of Cambridge. He researches microeconomic theory, the theory of organizations, industrial and competition policy, development and transition economics, and very long run economic history. He has published in several international scientific journals and writes a regular column in Le Monde.
His books include In compagnia degli estranei. Una storia naturale della vita economica, Italian Edition, Codice Edizioni (2005). This book was shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize 2005 and will appear in a second English edition in May 2010 with a special chapter examining the causes of the financial crisis. He also edited The Economic Regulation of Broadcasting Markets, Cambridge University Press (2007). His book Locking Horns: The Biology and Economics of the Sex War will be published by Princeton University Press in 2011.