The Politics of Knowledge

When Loyalty Minimizes Learning

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• Richard K. Laird

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• 306 Seiten
• 11 Lesestunden

• Politikwissenschaft

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This book restores the credibility of politics with the basics of human behavior and social science. It does this by discussing how to retain the positive relationship between learnability and livability. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 - The underlying objective Chapter 2 - Making a case for more learning Chapter 3 - Standards of living landmarks Chapter 4 - Self-knowledge explained Chapter 5 - So what do we do with self-knowledge? Chapter 6 - Rational choice and its competing biases Chapter 7 - Filling (some of) the Void of Uncertainty Chapter 8 - Specie, Groups, Individuals, and Universals Chapter 9 - What is a democratic political culture? Chapter 10 - Why do we have a Constitution? Chapter 11 - Why does the U.S. have a "Two-party" system? Chapter 12 - What is a Public Good? Chapter 13 - What is "Political Correctness" and how is it useful and misused? Chapter 14 - Rebooting education Chapter 15 - Redefining democracy Chapter 16 - Remodeling politics Chapter 17 - Retooling technology Chapter 18 - Reworking capitalism

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Einband: Hardcover