
- 231 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
In Markets Against Modernity, economist Ryan Murphy documents a clear continuity between the systematic errors people make in their personal lives and the gaps between public opinion and informed opinion. These errors cluster around specific divergences between how the modern world's institutions functionâincluding global markets, pluralistic democracy, and even science itselfâand how evolution trained our brains to understand the nature of economic relationships, social relationships, and humanity's relationship to the physical world. Murphy calls these systematic divergences Ecological Irrationality. Exploring them leads him to even more prickly questionsâand to conclusions that may challenge the beliefs of those who understand that, for instance, modern vaccines are safe and effective. Do we actually want a less cohesive society? Is doing a task yourself financially prudent? And if we recognize an expert consensus, is there even a way to implement it and achieve the desired effects?
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Markets against Modernity
- Series page
- Markets against Modernity: Ecological Irrationality, Public and Private
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Figures, Tables, and Text Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1
- Trade is Good
- Chapter 2
- âExtreme Voter Stupidityâ
- Chapter 3
- The Obvious and Simple System of Unnatural Liberty
- Chapter 4
- Ecological Irrationality in the Wild
- Chapter 5
- Bohemian Status-archy
- Chapter 6
- Anarchy, State, and Dystopia
- Chapter 7
- Too Much Social Capital
- Chapter 8
- The Poverty of DIYism
- Chapter 9
- Social Luddism
- Chapter 10
- Whither Expertise?
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author