Lies and Consequences
Author : Budd Getschal
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 1991
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Author : Budd Getschal
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 1991
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Author : Timur Kuran
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 1998-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674248139
Preference falsification, according to the economist Timur Kuran, is the act of misrepresenting one's wants under perceived social pressures. It happens frequently in everyday life, such as when we tell the host of a dinner party that we are enjoying the food when we actually find it bland. In Private Truths, Public Lies Kuran argues convincingly that the phenomenon not only is ubiquitous but has huge social and political consequences. Drawing on diverse intellectual traditions, including those rooted in economics, psychology, sociology, and political science, Kuran provides a unified theory of how preference falsification shapes collective decisions, orients structural change, sustains social stability, distorts human knowledge, and conceals political possibilities. A common effect of preference falsification is the preservation of widely disliked structures. Another is the conferment of an aura of stability on structures vulnerable to sudden collapse. When the support of a policy, tradition, or regime is largely contrived, a minor event may activate a bandwagon that generates massive yet unanticipated change. In distorting public opinion, preference falsification also corrupts public discourse and, hence, human knowledge. So structures held in place by preference falsification may, if the condition lasts long enough, achieve increasingly genuine acceptance. The book demonstrates how human knowledge and social structures co-evolve in complex and imperfectly predictable ways, without any guarantee of social efficiency. Private Truths, Public Lies uses its theoretical argument to illuminate an array of puzzling social phenomena. They include the unexpected fall of communism, the paucity, until recently, of open opposition to affirmative action in the United States, and the durability of the beliefs that have sustained India's caste system.
Author : Eric Alterman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2005-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780143036043
Assesses the impact of governmental and presidential lies on American culture, revealing how such lies become ever more complex and how such deception creates problems far more serious than those lied about in the beginning.
Author : Jane Hatton
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,8 MB
Release : 2005
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ISBN : 9781842941751
Author : Rodell Smalls
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Page : pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 2007
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ISBN : 9780977470525
Author : Louise Maria
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781463572945
Shocking book that shows how easily lies can lead to much worse things, even murder!!!!!!
Author : Richard M. Weaver
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 022609023X
A foundational text of the modern conservative movement, this 1948 philosophical treatise argues the decline of Western civilization and offers a remedy. Originally published in 1948, at the height of post–World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses “words hard as cannonballs” to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read and debated at the time of its first publication, the book is now seen as one of the foundational texts of the modern conservative movement. In its pages, Richard M. Weaver argues that the decline of Western civilization resulted from the rising acceptance of relativism over absolute reality. In spite of increased knowledge, this retreat from the realist intellectual tradition has weakened the Western capacity to reason, with catastrophic consequences for social order and individual rights. But Weaver also offers a realistic remedy. These difficulties are the product not of necessity, but of intelligent choice. And, today, as decades ago, the remedy lies in the renewed acceptance of absolute reality and the recognition that ideas—like actions—have consequences. This expanded edition of the classic work contains a foreword by New Criterion editor Roger Kimball that offers insight into the rich intellectual and historical contexts of Weaver and his work and an afterword by Ted J. Smith III that relates the remarkable story of the book’s writing and publication. Praise for Ideas Have Consequences “A profound diagnosis of the sickness of our culture.” —Reinhold Niebuhr “Brilliantly written, daring, and radical. . . . It will shock, and philosophical shock is the beginning of wisdom.” —Paul Tillich “This deeply prophetic book not only launched the renaissance of philosophical conservatism in this country, but in the process gave us an armory of insights into the diseases besetting the national community that is as timely today as when it first appeared. [This] is one of the few authentic classics in the American political tradition.” —Robert Nisbet
Author : Jennifer Donaldson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0698408497
"A compulsive page-turner with a shocking twist--get ready to stay up all night!" --Sara Shepard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars "This conversation-starting page-turner is...Fatal Attraction meets Big Little Lies." --Kirkus Reviews Gabe and Elyse have never met. But they both have something to hide. Quiet, shy Elyse can't believe it when she's cast as the lead in her Portland high school's production of Romeo and Juliet. Her best friend, Brynn, is usually the star, and Elyse isn't sure she's up to the task. But when someone at rehearsals starts to catch her eye--someone she knows she absolutely shouldn't be with--she can't help but be pulled into the spotlight. Austin native Gabe is contemplating the unthinkable--breaking up with Sasha, his headstrong, popular girlfriend. She's not going to let him slip through her fingers, though, and when rumors start to circulate around school, he knows she has the power to change his life forever. Gabe and Elyse both make the mistake of falling for the wrong person, and falling hard. Told in parallel narratives, this twisty, shocking story shows how one bad choice can lead to a spiral of unforeseen consequences that not everyone will survive.
Author : Patricia Von Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 2019-10
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781939237705
Using actual Bible text examples, this is a comprehensive study of lies, liars, and lying found in the Bible. Some stories cited will be familiar, others will surprise readers when realizing that they are reading an account of an unmistakable lie, one significant enough to be recorded in the Word of God, for students of life to learn from. Lies Told in the Bible: Intriguing Stories of Lies and Consequences gives readers pause, and provides a vast amount of food for thought.
Author : April D. McDonald
Publisher : Dorach Publishing
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 2005-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1419607707