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44 produkter
Power without Knowledge
A Critique of Technocracy
Inbunden, 2020
681 kr
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Technocrats claim to know how to solve the social and economic problems of complex modern societies. But as Jeffrey Friedman argues in Power without Knowledge, there is a fundamental flaw with technocracy: it requires an ability to predict how the people whom technocrats attempt to control will act …
Power without Knowledge
A Critique of Technocracy
E-bok, 2019
505 kr
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Technocrats claim to know how to solve the social and economic problems of complex modern societies. But as Jeffrey Friedman argues in Power without Knowledge , there is a fundamental flaw with technocracy: it requires an ability to predict how the people whom technocrats attempt to control will …
Power without Knowledge
A Critique of Technocracy
E-bok, 2019
505 kr
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Technocrats claim to know how to solve the social and economic problems of complex modern societies. But as Jeffrey Friedman argues in Power without Knowledge , there is a fundamental flaw with technocracy: it requires an ability to predict how the people whom technocrats attempt to control will …
Art of Nonfiction Movie Making
Av Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
759 kr
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The past few years have featured such blockbusters as Super-Size Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, March of the Penguins, and An Inconvenient Truth. And as news articles proclaim a new era in the history of documentary films, more and more new directors are making their first film a nonfiction one. But …
Rational Choice Controversy
Economic Models of Politics Reconsidered
Häftad, 1996
513 kr
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Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory, a book written by Donald Green and Ian Shapiro and published in 1994, excited much controversy among political scientists and promoted a dialogue among them that was printed in a double issue of the journal Critical Review in 1995. This new book reproduces …
Art of Nonfiction Movie Making
Av Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
780 kr
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The past few years have featured such blockbusters as Super-Size Me , Fahrenheit 9/11 , Sicko , March of the Penguins , and An Inconvenient Truth . And as news articles proclaim a new era in the history of documentary films, more and more new directors are making their first film a nonfiction one. …
Political Knowledge
Av Jeffrey Friedman, Shterna Friedman
2012
24563 kr
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Since at least the time of Plato, political scientists and philosophers have been concerned about what citizens and rulers should know if they are to be governed—and govern—well. Moreover, the increasing complexity of modern societies has revivified thinking about and around the critical concept of …
Nature of Belief Systems Reconsidered
Av Jeffrey Friedman, Shterna Friedman
Inbunden, 2012
2736 kr
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In the foundational document of modern public-opinion research, Philip E. Converse’s "The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics" (1964) established the U.S. public’s startling political ignorance. This volume makes Converse’s long out-of-print article available again and brings together a …
Rethinking the Rhetorical Presidency
Av Jeffrey Friedman, Shterna Friedman
Inbunden, 2012
2504 kr
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In The Rhetorical Presidency, Jeffrey Tulis argues that the president’s relationship to the public has changed dramatically since the Constitution was enacted: while previously the president avoided any discussions of public policy so as to avoid demagoguery, the president is now expected to go …
Societal Complexity
System Effects and the Problem of Prediction
Inbunden, 2013
1517 kr
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The complexity of the modern world makes it difficult to predict the effects of political actions. In his 1992 book, System Effects, Robert Jervis underscored this difficulty by pointing to various sources of complexity when people interact. For example, they may misperceive each other’s …
What Caused the Financial Crisis
E-bok, 2011
571 kr
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The deflation of the subprime mortgage bubble in 2006-7 is widely agreed to have been the immediate cause of the collapse of the financial sector in 2008. Consequently, one might think that uncovering the origins of subprime lending would make the root causes of the crisis obvious. That is …
Engineering the Financial Crisis
Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation
Av Jeffrey Friedman, Wladimir Kraus
E-bok, 2011
602 kr
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The financial crisis has been blamed on reckless bankers, irrational exuberance, government support of mortgages for the poor, financial deregulation, and expansionary monetary policy. Specialists in banking, however, tell a story with less emotional resonance but a better correspondence to the …
What Caused the Financial Crisis
Häftad, 2011
455 kr
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The deflation of the subprime mortgage bubble in 2006-7 is widely agreed to have been the immediate cause of the collapse of the financial sector in 2008. Consequently, one might think that uncovering the origins of subprime lending would make the root causes of the crisis obvious. That is …
Engineering the Financial Crisis
Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation
Av Jeffrey Friedman, Wladimir Kraus
Inbunden, 2011
528 kr
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The financial crisis has been blamed on reckless bankers, irrational exuberance, government support of mortgages for the poor, financial deregulation, and expansionary monetary policy. Specialists in banking, however, tell a story with less emotional resonance but a better correspondence to the …
Isaiah Berlin
E-bok, 2022
762 kr
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Isaiah Berlin’s liberalism seems both dated and essential in an era of ideological extremes. Berlin’s vision of liberalism rejected metaphysics, philosophies of history, and particular conceptions of the good, setting a pattern for Anglo-American political thought that is still influential and …
Isaiah Berlin
E-bok, 2022
746 kr
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Isaiah Berlin’s liberalism seems both dated and essential in an era of ideological extremes. Berlin’s vision of liberalism rejected metaphysics, philosophies of history, and particular conceptions of the good, setting a pattern for Anglo-American political thought that is still influential and …
Longing for Total Revolution Reconsidered
Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, and Modernity
E-bok, 2022
762 kr
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In The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche (1986), the eminent intellectual historian and political theorist Bernard Yack offered a sweeping reinterpretation of modern thought. Yack argued that Rousseau prompted a line of philosophy …
Longing for Total Revolution Reconsidered
Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, and Modernity
E-bok, 2022
762 kr
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In The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche (1986), the eminent intellectual historian and political theorist Bernard Yack offered a sweeping reinterpretation of modern thought. Yack argued that Rousseau prompted a line of philosophy …
New Perspectives on Populism
E-bok, 2022
746 kr
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Populism has taken the world by storm—but what is it? In this volume, twelve political scientists and political theorists approach this question from a variety of new perspectives, empirical and theoretic, covering populism around the world. In addition to chapters on populism in Eastern Europe …
New Perspectives on Populism
E-bok, 2022
762 kr
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Populism has taken the world by storm—but what is it? In this volume, twelve political scientists and political theorists approach this question from a variety of new perspectives, empirical and theoretic, covering populism around the world. In addition to chapters on populism in Eastern Europe …
Intolerance
Premodern Roots and Modern Manifestations
E-bok, 2022
745 kr
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Intolerance of ideas different from one’s own seems to be a common attitude among human beings and, at the same time, something that seems to be more pronounced in recent years. In this volume, political theorists and philosophers consider some of the historical preconditions of modern intolerance …
Intolerance
Premodern Roots and Modern Manifestations
E-bok, 2022
745 kr
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Intolerance of ideas different from one’s own seems to be a common attitude among human beings and, at the same time, something that seems to be more pronounced in recent years. In this volume, political theorists and philosophers consider some of the historical preconditions of modern intolerance …
Isaiah Berlin
Inbunden, 2022
2139 kr
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Isaiah Berlin’s liberalism seems both dated and essential in an era of ideological extremes. Berlin’s vision of liberalism rejected metaphysics, philosophies of history, and particular conceptions of the good, setting a pattern for Anglo-American political thought that is still influential and may …
Isaiah Berlin
Häftad, 2024
649 kr
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Isaiah Berlin’s liberalism seems both dated and essential in an era of ideological extremes. Berlin’s vision of liberalism rejected metaphysics, philosophies of history, and particular conceptions of the good, setting a pattern for Anglo-American political thought that is still influential and may …
New Perspectives on Populism
Inbunden, 2022
2139 kr
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Populism has taken the world by storm—but what is it? In this volume, twelve political scientists and political theorists approach this question from a variety of new perspectives, empirical and theoretic, covering populism around the world. In addition to chapters on populism in Eastern Europe and …
New Perspectives on Populism
Häftad, 2024
649 kr
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Populism has taken the world by storm—but what is it? In this volume, twelve political scientists and political theorists approach this question from a variety of new perspectives, empirical and theoretic, covering populism around the world. In addition to chapters on populism in Eastern Europe and …
Longing for Total Revolution Reconsidered
Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, and Modernity
Inbunden, 2022
2139 kr
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In The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche (1986), the eminent intellectual historian and political theorist Bernard Yack offered a sweeping reinterpretation of modern thought. Yack argued that Rousseau prompted a line of philosophy …
Longing for Total Revolution Reconsidered
Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, and Modernity
Häftad, 2024
649 kr
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In The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche (1986), the eminent intellectual historian and political theorist Bernard Yack offered a sweeping reinterpretation of modern thought. Yack argued that Rousseau prompted a line of philosophy …
Intolerance
Premodern Roots and Modern Manifestations
Inbunden, 2022
2139 kr
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Intolerance of ideas different from one’s own seems to be a common attitude among human beings and, at the same time, something that seems to be more pronounced in recent years. In this volume, political theorists and philosophers consider some of the historical preconditions of modern intolerance …
Intolerance
Premodern Roots and Modern Manifestations
Häftad, 2024
635 kr
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Intolerance of ideas different from one’s own seems to be a common attitude among human beings and, at the same time, something that seems to be more pronounced in recent years. In this volume, political theorists and philosophers consider some of the historical preconditions of modern intolerance …
