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  • Power without Knowledge

    A Critique of Technocracy

    by Jeffrey Friedman ...
    Technocrats claim to know how to solve the social and economic problems of complex modern societies. But as Jeffrey Friedman argues in Power without Knowledge, there is a fundamental flaw with technocracy: it requires an ability to predict how the people whom technocrats attempt to control will act in response to technocratic policies. However, the mass public's ideas-the ideas that drive their ... Read more

    $51.19 CAD

  • Engineering the Financial Crisis

    Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation

    by Jeffrey Friedman, Wladimir Kraus ...
    The financial crisis has been blamed on reckless bankers, irrational exuberance, government support of mortgages for the poor, financial deregulation, and expansionary monetary policy. Specialists in banking, however, tell a story with less emotional resonance but a better correspondence to the evidence: the crisis was sparked by the international regulatory accords on bank capital levels, the ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Engineering the Financial Crisis

    Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation

    by Jeffrey Friedman, Wladimir Kraus ...
    The financial crisis has been blamed on reckless bankers, irrational exuberance, government support of mortgages for the poor, financial deregulation, and expansionary monetary policy. Specialists in banking, however, tell a story with less emotional resonance but a better correspondence to the evidence: the crisis was sparked by the international regulatory accords on bank capital levels, the ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Art of Nonfiction Movie Making

    by Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein, Sharon Wood ...
    The past few years have featured such blockbusters as Super-Size Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, March of the Penguins, and An Inconvenient Truth. And as news articles proclaim a new era in the history of documentary films, more and more new directors are making their first film a nonfiction one. But in addition to posing all of the usual challenges inherent to more standard filmmaking, documentaries ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • War and Chance

    Assessing Uncertainty in International Politics

    by Jeffrey A. Friedman ...
    Series series Bridging the Gap
    Uncertainty surrounds every major decision in international politics. Yet there is almost always room for reasonable people to disagree about what that uncertainty entails. No one can reliably predict the outbreak of armed conflict, forecast economic recessions, anticipate terrorist attacks, or estimate the countless other risks that shape foreign policy choices. Many scholars and practitioners ... Read more

    $20.39 CAD

  • The Commander-in-Chief Test

    Public Opinion and the Politics of Image-Making in US Foreign Policy

    by Jeffrey A. Friedman ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    In The Commander-in-Chief Test**, Jeffrey A. Friedman offers a fresh explanation for why Americans are often frustrated by the cost and scope of US foreign policy—and how we can fix that for the future.**Americans frequently criticize US foreign policy for being overly costly and excessively militaristic. With its rising defense budgets and open-ended "forever wars," US foreign policy often ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Isaiah Berlin

    Edited by Jeffrey Friedman ...
    Isaiah Berlin’s liberalism seems both dated and essential in an era of ideological extremes. Berlin’s vision of liberalism rejected metaphysics, philosophies of history, and particular conceptions of the good, setting a pattern for Anglo-American political thought that is still influential and may offer resources for understanding the resurgence of ideology in the twenty-first century, but one ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Intolerance

    Premodern Roots and Modern Manifestations

    Edited by Jeffrey Friedman ...
    Intolerance of ideas different from one’s own seems to be a common attitude among human beings and, at the same time, something that seems to be more pronounced in recent years. In this volume, political theorists and philosophers consider some of the historical preconditions of modern intolerance and debate the sources of its recent manifestations.From theories of religious intolerance during the ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • The Longing for Total Revolution Reconsidered

    Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, and Modernity

    Edited by Jeffrey Friedman ...
    In The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche (1986), the eminent intellectual historian and political theorist Bernard Yack offered a sweeping reinterpretation of modern thought. Yack argued that Rousseau prompted a line of philosophy that continued through Kant, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche, which viewed the essential spirit of modernity ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • New Perspectives on Populism

    Edited by Jeffrey Friedman ...
    Populism has taken the world by storm—but what is it? In this volume, twelve political scientists and political theorists approach this question from a variety of new perspectives, empirical and theoretic, covering populism around the world. In addition to chapters on populism in Eastern Europe and Britain, six authors analyse populism in the United States, treating it, variously, as a reaction ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Nature of Belief Systems Reconsidered

    Edited by Jeffrey Friedman, Shterna Friedman ...
    In the foundational document of modern public-opinion research, Philip E. Converse’s "The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics" (1964) established the U.S. public’s startling political ignorance. This volume makes Converse’s long out-of-print article available again and brings together a variety of scholars, including Converse himself, to reflect on Converse’s findings after nearly half a ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Rethinking the Rhetorical Presidency

    Edited by Jeffrey Friedman, Shterna Friedman ...
    In The Rhetorical Presidency, Jeffrey Tulis argues that the president’s relationship to the public has changed dramatically since the Constitution was enacted: while previously the president avoided any discussions of public policy so as to avoid demagoguery, the president is now expected to go directly to the public, using all the tools of rhetoric to influence public policy. This has effectively ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD