Ryan H. Murphy

Markets against Modernity (eBook, ePUB)

Ecological Irrationality, Public and Private

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Markets Against Modernity, economist Ryan Murphy documents a clear continuity between the systematic errors people make in their personal lives and the gaps between public opinion and informed opinion. These errors cluster around specific divergences between how the modern world's institutions function-including global markets, pluralistic democracy, and even science itself-and how evolution trained our brains to understand the nature of economic relationships, social relationships, and humanity's relationship to the physical world. Murphy calls these systematic divergences Ecological Irrationality. Exploring them leads him to even more prickly questions-and to conclusions that may challenge the beliefs of those who understand that, for instance, modern vaccines are safe and effective. Do we actually want a less cohesive society? Is doing a task yourself financially prudent? And if we recognize an expert consensus, is there even a way to implement it and achieve the desired effects?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498591195
• Artikelnr.: 58115513

Autorenporträt

Ryan H. Murphy is senior research fellow at the O'Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at Southern Methodist University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1
Trade Is Good Chapter 2
"Extreme Voter Stupidity" Chapter 3
The Obvious and Simple System of Unnatural Liberty Chapter 4
Ecological Irrationality in the Wild Chapter 5
Bohemian Status-archy Chapter 6
Anarchy
State
and Dystopia
Chapter 7
Too Much Social Capital Chapter 8
The Poverty of DIYism Chapter 9
Social Luddism Chapter 10
Whither Expertise?