Beschreibung:
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.
Chapter 1 ¿ The underlying objectiveChapter 2 - Making a case for more learningChapter 3 - Standards of living landmarksChapter 4 - Self-knowledge explainedChapter 5 - So what do we do with self-knowledge?Chapter 6 ¿ Rational choice and its competing biasesChapter 7 - Filling (some of) the Void of UncertaintyChapter 8 ¿ Specie, Groups, Individuals, and UniversalsChapter 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 educationChapter 15 ¿ Redefining democracyChapter 16 ¿ Remodeling politicsChapter 17 ¿ Retooling technologyChapter 18 ¿ Reworking capitalism