Paul Seabright

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Paul Seabright is Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse, France. Formerly a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and of Churchill College, Cambridge, where he was lecturer and then Reader until 2001, he is a contributor to the London Review of Books. Seabright is also the Chairman of Bruegel's Scientific Council, Managing Editor of Economic Policy (since 2001) and Research Fellow of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (since 1989).

[edit] Research interests

Mr. Seabright's current research focuses on microeconomic theory, development economics, industrial policy in transition economies and state aids to industry.

[edit] Career

Mr. Seabright has been a consultant to private sector firms, governments and international organisations including the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank, the European Commission and the United Nations. He has been visiting professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in India (1984-85), the Université Libre de Bruxelles (1997-98), the College of Europe in Bruges (1998-99), the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (2000), and the Ecole Polytechnique near Paris (1998-2003).

[edit] References

• Seabright, Paul (2004). The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-11821-3. 
• Interview in Reason Online
• Publisher interview