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Practical wisdom : the right way to do the right thing / Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe.
LIBRA BF431 .S358 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schwartz, Barry, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wisdom.
- Knowledge.
- Physical Description:
- 324 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2010.
- Contents:
- What wisdom is and why we need it
- Introduction: the need for wisdom
- What wisdom is : the janitor and the judge
- Balancing acts : why wisdom is practical
- The machinery of wisdom
- Born to be wise
- Thinking with feeling : the value of empathy
- Learning from experience : the machinery of wisdom
- The war on wisdom
- Ruling out wisdom : when judges stop judging and doctors stop prescribing
- Eroding the empathy to be wise
- Right by rote: overstandardization and the rise of the canny outlaw
- The war on will
- Demoralizing institutions
- Sources of hope
- System changers
- Wisdom and happiness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-315) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594487835
- 1594487839
- OCLC:
- 646111798
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