This book is about logic and evidence and its antithesis, fallacies, and powerful rhetoric. This book provides a tool box of knowledge about decision-making and evaluating public policy that citizens need to know in order to make informed decisions about policy proposals.
This book is about logic and evidence and its antithesis, fallacies, and powerful rhetoric. This book provides a tool box of knowledge about decision-making and evaluating public policy that citizens need to know in order to make informed decisions about policy proposals.
List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: An Evidence-Based versus a Rhetoric-Based Approach to Understanding Public Policy Part 1: Logic and Evidence versus Fallacies and Rhetoric OneWhat Is an Evidence-Based Approach? Can Non-Existence be Proven? TwoWhat Is an Evidence-Based Approach? Is Non-Proportionality Discrimination? ThreeBasic Logic and Fallacies: Necessary versus Sufficient Conditions FourEvidence, Economic Data, and How to Find It FiveMore Fallacies SixEvidence: What it Is, What it Is Not SevenFallacies Based on Personal Attack Part 2: Basic Knowledge for Decision-Making and Evaluating Policy EightMaking Good Decisions and Good Policy: Relative versus Absolute, Opportunity Costs, and Marginalism NineCertainty versus Uncertainty: Multiple Factors, Multiple Uncertain Outcomes, Polls and Their Interpretation TenIndividual Preferences and Opportunities, and the State's Role: Capitalism, Communism, (Democratic) Socialism, and the Welfare State Bibliography Index About the Author
List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: An Evidence-Based versus a Rhetoric-Based Approach to Understanding Public Policy Part 1: Logic and Evidence versus Fallacies and Rhetoric OneWhat Is an Evidence-Based Approach? Can Non-Existence be Proven? TwoWhat Is an Evidence-Based Approach? Is Non-Proportionality Discrimination? ThreeBasic Logic and Fallacies: Necessary versus Sufficient Conditions FourEvidence, Economic Data, and How to Find It FiveMore Fallacies SixEvidence: What it Is, What it Is Not SevenFallacies Based on Personal Attack Part 2: Basic Knowledge for Decision-Making and Evaluating Policy EightMaking Good Decisions and Good Policy: Relative versus Absolute, Opportunity Costs, and Marginalism NineCertainty versus Uncertainty: Multiple Factors, Multiple Uncertain Outcomes, Polls and Their Interpretation TenIndividual Preferences and Opportunities, and the State's Role: Capitalism, Communism, (Democratic) Socialism, and the Welfare State Bibliography Index About the Author
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