Richard K. Laird

The Politics of Knowledge

When Loyalty Minimizes Learning

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781498576017
• ISBN-10: 149857601X
• Artikelnr.: 63242709

Autorenporträt

By Richard K. Laird

Inhaltsangabe

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