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Sex, Science And Profits
  • Published: 2 March 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099281931
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $27.99
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Sex, Science And Profits

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A brilliant, provocative exploration of the biological roots of economics, in the tradition of Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and Jared Diamond.

The question 'What is art?' is frequently debated, but 'What is science?' appears to be discussed less often - though the answers could reveal far more about us.
Is science a public good? Does science mean progress? Or is science something more exploitative - driven by profit, promoted by businesses and institutions looking for economic and political power?

In this ground-breaking study in the tradition of Richard Dawkins and Jared Diamond, Terence Kealey shows how an understanding of sexual and natural selection can transform our view of progress in economics, business and technology. Richly multi-disciplinary, witty, brilliant and thought-provoking, it is an important and controversial book.
  • Published: 2 March 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099281931
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $27.99
Categories:

About the author

Terence Kealey

Terence Kealey is a clinical biochemist at the University of Cambridge and at Addenbrooke's Hospital, specialising in the biochemistry of hair. He writes regularly for the Spectator and the New Scientist

TK

Praise for Sex, Science And Profits

A bracing argument, and Kealey writes clearly and well...fascinating

Guardian

Hugely ambitious, stupendously confident and unrelentingly provocative. It is indeed a tropical storm of a book; it throws out a whirlwind of ideas, it deluges its readers with facts and statistics, buffets them with challenges to conventional wisdom and leaves them feeling like heroes when they survive the commotion of reading it

Sunday Telegraph

Absorbing...a gloriously idiosyncratic work

Sunday Times

Rip-roaring... Kealey's gallop through capitalism, sociology, history, economics and science is a stimulating and splendid read

The Times

Extraordinary... a brilliant, counter-intuitive argument in favour of individualism and market forces

Mail on Sunday

An entertaining canter through global history...energy and muscular prose are much in evidence

The Times Higher Educational Supplement

Kealey writes with enthusiasm and panache... exhilarating and exciting

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