Untruth

Untruth
Author: Robert J. Samuelson
Publisher: AtRandom
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2001-02-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0679647155

In Untruth, Newsweek and Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson explains why our political, economic and cultural debates so routinely traffic in misinformation--popular fads that, like meteors, momentarily burn brightly in public consciousness and then fizzle out. Advocacy groups, politicians and their unwitting allies in the media instinctively create agendas of problems that afflict society and must be "solved".The problems are often exaggerated and oversimplified, and the result is that the public is misled about what is wrong and how easily it can be made right. Untruth is the first collection of Samuelson's insightful assaults on the conventional wisdom. Included are columns arguing that campaign contributions have not corrupted politics, that the "service economy" is not turning America into a nation of hamburger flippers, and that the Internet isn't the most important invention since the printing press.

Conventional Wisdom

Conventional Wisdom
Author: Susan McClary
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2000
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0520232089

McClary, "offers an analysis of our own cultural moment in terms of two dominant traditions: tonality and blues."--Jacket.

Cracking the China Conundrum

Cracking the China Conundrum
Author: Yukon Huang
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2017-06-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0190630043

China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding tremendous public attention. Despite extensive media and academic scrutiny, the conventional wisdom about China's economy is often wrong. Cracking the China Conundrum provides a holistic and contrarian view of China's major economic, political, and foreign policy issues. Yukon Huang trenchantly addresses widely accepted yet misguided views in the analysis of China's economy. He examines arguments about the causes and effects of China's possible debt and property market bubbles, trade and investment relations with the Western world, the links between corruption and political liberalization in a growing economy and Beijing's more assertive foreign policies. Huang explains that such misconceptions arise in part because China's economic system is unprecedented in many ways-namely because it's driven by both the market and state- which complicates the task of designing accurate and adaptable analysis and research. Further, China's size, regional diversity, and uniquely decentralized administrative system poses difficulties for making generalizations and comparisons from micro to macro levels when trying to interpret China's economic state accurately. This book not only interprets the ideologies that experts continue building misguided theories upon, but also examines the contributing factors to this puzzle. Cracking the China Conundrum provides an enlightening and corrective viewpoint on several major economic and political foreign policy concerns currently shaping China's economic environment.

Against The Conventional Wisdom

Against The Conventional Wisdom
Author: Douglas Dowd
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2019-04-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429720963

For the past twenty-five years, the United States has undergone a retrogression in its socioeconomic policies–facilitated and supported by most economists–thanks to the steady drumbeat of arguments by entrepreneurs and politicians who celebrate the free market for anything and everything and who advocate, among other follies, balanced budgets and r

Defying Conventional Wisdom

Defying Conventional Wisdom
Author: Jeffrey McKelvey Ayres
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780802080899

The first major study on the origins, strategies, and activities of movements and coalitions in opposition to free trade that arose in Canada and spread across North America - it captures an important developmental period in Canadian political life.

Conventional Wisdom

Conventional Wisdom
Author: Arthur Drooker
Publisher: Glitterati
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-08
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781943876273

Conventional Wisdom chronicles author-photographer Arthur Drooker's travels to quirky conventions in the United States, documenting the antics of Lincoln presenters, furries, and mermaids, among others, as unique expressions of community, culture, and connection.

Getting to the Heart of Science Communication

Getting to the Heart of Science Communication
Author: Faith Kearns
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1642830747

Scientists today working on controversial issues from climate change to drought to COVID-19 are finding themselves more often in the middle of deeply traumatizing or polarized conflicts they feel unprepared to referee. It is no longer enough for scientists to communicate a scientific topic clearly. They must now be experts not only in their fields of study, but also in navigating the thoughts, feelings, and opinions of members of the public they engage with, and with each other. And the conversations are growing more fraught. In Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, Faith Kearns has penned a succinct guide for navigating the human relationships critical to the success of practice-based science. This meticulously researched volume takes science communication to the next level, helping scientists to see the value of listening as well as talking, understanding power dynamics in relationships, and addressing the roles of trauma, loss, grief, and healing.

Second Thoughts

Second Thoughts
Author: Janet M. Ruane
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 567
Release: 2014-08-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1483300013

Co-authored by Karen A. Cerulo, the Eastern Sociological Society’s Robin L. Williams Lecturer for 2013-2014 Do birds of a feather flock together or do opposites attract? Is honesty the best policy? Are children our most precious commodity? Is education the great equalizer? Adages like these shape our social life. This Sixth Edition of Second Thoughts reviews several popular beliefs and notes how these conventional wisdoms cannot be taken at face value, but instead require careful second thoughts. This unique text encourages students to step back and sharpen their analytic focus with 25 essays that use social research to expose the gray areas of commonly held beliefs, revealing the complexity of social reality and sharpening students’ sociological vision.

Staying Alive: Why the Conventional Wisdom about Traditional Churches Is Wrong

Staying Alive: Why the Conventional Wisdom about Traditional Churches Is Wrong
Author: Mark Wingfield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781603500258

The conventional wisdom says it's not possible to thrive today as a traditional congregation whether "traditional" means worship style or program structure. Staying Alive takes readers on a journey across America to look for best practices of thriving traditional congregations.

The Affluent Society

The Affluent Society
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher: Signet
Total Pages:
Release: 1963-09-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780451621863

Galbraith's classic on the "economics of abundance" is, in the words of the New York Times, "a compelling challenge to conventional thought." With customary clarity, eloquence, and humor, Galbraith cuts to the heart of what economic security means (and doesn't mean) in today's world and lays bare the hazards of individual and societal complacence about economic inequity. While "affluent society" and "conventional wisdom" (first used in this book) have entered the vernacular, the message of the book has not been so widely embraced--reason enough to rediscover The Affluent Society. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.