Download or read book The Stupidity Problem and Other Harassments written by John Fischer and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field notes by an uninhibited observer of contemporary Americana on race relations, population control, politics, business foundations, females, etc.
Download or read book Critical Essays on Donald Barthelme written by Richard Francis Patteson and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive collection of essays ever published on the contemporary American writer who died at the age of 58 in 1989, this volume contains both a sizeable gathering of early reviews and a broad selection of more modern scholarship as well, including both reprinted articles and reviews and five original essays commissioned specifically for this volume. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity written by Carlo M. Cipolla and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A masterly book" —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan "A classic" —Simon Kuper, Financial Times An economist explains five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the world Throughout history, a powerful force has hindered the growth of human welfare and happiness. It is more powerful than the Mafia or the military. It has global catastrophic effects and can be found anywhere from the world's most powerful boardrooms to your local bar. It is human stupidity. Carlo M. Cipolla, noted professor of economic history at the UC Berkeley, created this vitally important book in order to detect and neutralize its threat. Both hilarious and dead serious, it will leave you better equipped to confront political realities, unreasonable colleagues, or your next dinner with your in-laws. The Laws: 1. Everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals among us. 2. The probability that a certain person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person. 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person while deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses themselves. 4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. 5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
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Download or read book The Little Book of Stupidity written by Sia Mohajer and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Human Beings we are great story tellers. We tell stories about who we are, what we're doing and why we are doing it. The problem is sometimes those stories are fictions; created by our own blindness to reality. We are such good story tellers that we often don't know we are deceiving ourselves. The brain has evolved to make information processing simplified and with this has created a need to simplify the world. The problem is sometimes rational thinking becomes sacrificed for this simplicity In The Little Book of Stupidity, Sia Mohajer draws on extensive research and makes surprising connections among ten of life's most pervasive cognitive biases. It is a story about how stupid we can all be and also how we can become more compassionate as a result.
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