Un-civilizing America how win-lose deals set us back
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
[2023]
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009752737806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 In the Beginning
- Arguing with God
- Ignoble Savages
- Morality Pays
- An Introduction to Bad Guy Theory
- Grave Misgivings
- Chapter 2 On Cooperation and Win-Win
- Rules of the Road
- Win-Win . . . or Lose
- The Winningest Win-Win
- Chapter 3 What Civilization Is Not
- Violence and Persuasion
- The Greatest Killers of All Time
- Disarm Governments
- Can't Make Civilization
- An Invitation to Claptrap
- Train Your Husband
- Chapter 4 What Kind of Game Are We Playing?
- Tit for Tat in the Trenches
- Tax Peter . . . Pay Paul
- Ancient Win-Lose
- Is Defecting Wrong?
- Force Is Not Persuasion
- Chapter 5 Win-Win . . . or Lose
- The Importance of the Vernacular
- A Learning System
- No Satisfaction
- Eat and Produce
- Trust
- The Great Leveler
- History of Inequality
- Stability Leads to Instability
- Four Horsemen of Leveling
- Adding It Up
- Chapter 6 Fake News
- Facts and Myths
- Private Myths
- Large-Scale Myths
- Make America Great Again
- The Trouble with the Truth
- Fake Myths
- Mushy Facts
- Collusion of the Press
- "Well, It's One, Two, Three . . . What Are We Fightin' For?"
- Fake Truth
- Software Outlives Its Useful Life
- Leaping to Absurdity
- Local Heroes
- Numbers Lie Too
- Myths in Collision
- Equal Pay for Equal Work
- Why We Love Fat People
- Chapter 7 Win-Lose Money
- 1971 and All That
- Money and the Deep State
- Money and Civilization
- Fake Money. Real Money. What's the Difference?
- The "Bezzle"
- Ex Nihilo Nilil Fit
- The Future in the Past
- Hayek Was Right
- High Finance for Toddlers
- Why Stimulus Doesn't Work
- Chapter 8 Government-The Ultimate Win-Loser
- Give and Take
- Ordered to Shoot
- Sh*thole Theory
- Back to Charm City
- Why Government Doesn't Work.
- Chapter 9 The Deep State
- Hero of the Surge
- The "Pimpocracy"
- Bigger and Broader Than You Think
- Ten Thousand Commandments
- Follow the Money
- Everybody's a Target
- Götterdämmerung for Democracy
- Chapter 10 De-civilizing America
- Professional Wrasslin'
- End of History
- Hell in a Cell
- Folk Tales
- Blond Messiah
- Us Versus Them
- Aftermath
- Revolution
- Bastille Day
- Plague
- Inflation
- Decline and Fall
- War
- Hasn't Anyone Ever Read de Caulincourt?
- A Cold Day in Hell
- The Mission Economy
- Patterns and Cycles
- Why Rome Fell
- Win-Win Versus Win-Lose
- An Afterthought
- Notes
- About the Author
- Index
- EULA.
