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Author : Clive Hamilton
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781742375786
A radical reconsideration of the meaning of freedom and morality in the modern world.
Author : Barry Schwartz
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780061748998
Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions—both big and small—have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. As Americans, we assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice—the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish—becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice—from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs—has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse. By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counter intuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on those that are important and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.
Author : Jaw-Nian Huang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429939341
This book offers a political economy analysis of the development and degradation of freedom of the press in Taiwan since 1949, exploring how state-business elites and foreign hegemons interacted to shape the evolution of Taiwan’s media. It examines why freedoms increased alongside democratization in the 1990s but deteriorated after the second peaceful turnover of power in 2008 and why significant improvements accompanied Taiwan’s close economic connections with the US during the Cold War, only to become eroded as the country developed deeper economic ties with China in the 21st century. Presenting both a domestic and international perspective, this study of the controversial case of Taiwan ultimately argues in favor of three factors. First, state power is not the only threat to press freedom, as corporate organizations and market forces may also play a role in curtailing it. Second, cross-national economic connections do not always improve human and civil rights but may cause damage when they involve more powerful authoritarian countries. Third, just as norms diffuse from liberal contexts to repressive states, repressive norms are also likely to diffuse from powerful authoritarian countries to more liberal but politically and economically weaker ones. Providing a new viewpoint on China’s media control overseas, The Political Economy of Press Freedom will be useful for students and scholars of Chinese Studies and Taiwan Studies as well as comparative politics, international relations and Media Studies.
Author : Bobby Albert
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642796452
Cutting through the haze of hatred and polarizing politics of our time, The Freedom Paradox offers an unexpected solution to re-unite America. It was the best of times, and it now seems like the worst of times. The chaos, discord and hostility gripping America today are evident to all. The root cause of these woes, however, is not so obvious. Using his keen sense of cultural awareness, Bobby Albert answers the questions that are on our hearts and minds, “What happened to the America of our youth?” and “How can we re-claim it?”. Many are fighting for and celebrating their freedoms, but few realize that unrestrained freedom today results in chaos and constraints tomorrow. Within The Freedom Paradox, readers discover: The “Life and Liberty Equation” and why it’s out of balance The competing approaches of principle and expediency The contrasts and consequences associated with scarcity and abundance mindsets The impact of what they say and how they say it The root cause of the problems of their great nation and how they can help
Author : Leslie Bell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520954489
Hard to Get is a powerful and intimate examination of the sex and love lives of the most liberated women in history—twenty-something American women who have had more opportunities, more positive role models, and more information than any previous generation. Drawing from her years of experience as a researcher and a psychotherapist, Leslie C. Bell takes us directly into the lives of young women who struggle to negotiate the complexities of sexual desire and pleasure, and to make sense of their historically unique but contradictory constellation of opportunities and challenges. In candid interviews, Bell’s subjects reveal that, despite having more choices than ever, they face great uncertainty about desire, sexuality, and relationships. Ground-breaking and highly readable, Hard to Get offers fascinating insights into the many ways that sex, love, and satisfying relationships prove surprisingly elusive to these young women as they navigate the new emotional landscape of the 21st century.
Author : Graham Tomlin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472939517
Freedom is one of the most cherished ideals of Western culture. Yet that ideal is threatened from without and within in alarming ways in our increasingly polarised world. Could it be that at the heart of our secular vision of freedom there is a fatal flaw, which means it can never square the circle of personal liberty and social cohesion that we all long for? In this accessible, significant and deeply thoughtful book, Graham Tomlin argues that the Christian vision of freedom offers a way to think about liberty that can bring together both personal fulfilment and the health of community life in a way that secular versions have failed to do.
Author : Sam Lebovic
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674969599
Does America have a free press? Many who say yes appeal to First Amendment protections against censorship. Sam Lebovic shows that free speech, on its own, is not sufficient to produce a free press and helps us understand the crises that beset the press amid media consolidation, a secretive national security state, and the daily newspaper’s decline.
Author : Sidney Hook
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780520373464
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.
Author : David Scott,Orlando Patterson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509551187
The Paradox of Freedom is an exploration of the life and work of Orlando Patterson, probing the relationship between the circumstances of his life from their beginnings in rural Jamaica to the present and the complex development of his intellectual work. A novelist and historical sociologist with an orientation toward public engagement, Patterson exemplifies one way of being a Jamaican and Black Atlantic intellectual. At the generative center of Patterson’s work has been a fundamental inquiry into the internal dynamics of slavery as a mode of social and existential domination. What is most provocatively significant in his work on slavery is the way it yields a paradoxical insight into the problem of freedom – namely, that freedom was born existentially and historically from the degradation and parasitic inhumanity of slavery and was as much the creation of the enslaved as of their enslavers. The Paradox of Freedom elucidates the pathways by which Patterson has both uncovered the relationship between domination and freedom and engaged intellectually and publicly with the struggles for equality and decolonization among descendants of the enslaved. It will be of great interest to students and scholars throughout the humanities and social sciences and to anyone interested in the work of one of the most important public intellectuals of our time.
Author : Sebastian Junger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982153427
"A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the New York Times bestselling author of Tribe"--
Author : Arnold Goldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317292098
First published in 1966. By pursuing a group of cognate themes, the author relates major critical approaches to the fiction of James Joyce. One of the major issues explored is that of the existence of ‘symbols’ in his fiction, and of the quality of Joyce’s feelings shown through an examination of the extent of his human sympathies. This title will be of interest to students of literature.
Author : Paul H. Rubin
Publisher : Bombardier Books
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781642931402
In spite of its numerous obvious failures, many presidential candidates and voters are in favor of a socialist system for the United States. Socialism is consistent with our primitive evolved preferences, but not with a modern complex economy. One reason for the desire for socialism is the misinterpretation of capitalism. The standard definition of free market capitalism is that it’s a system based on unbridled competition. But this oversimplification is incredibly misleading—capitalism exists because human beings have organically developed an elaborate system based on trust and collaboration that allows consumers, producers, distributors, financiers, and the rest of the players in the capitalist system to thrive. Paul Rubin, the world’s leading expert on cooperative capitalism, explains simply and powerfully how we should think about markets, economics, and business—making this book an indispensable tool for understanding and communicating the vast benefits the free market bestows upon societies and individuals.
Author : Christine Iliandis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Autonomy (Psychology)
ISBN : 1785540661
In Paradox of Freedom Christine Iliadis offers the reader a blue-print for ditching learned behaviour and replacing it with inner freedom. Learned behaviour such as seeking praise for what we do leads to dependency which can be the basis for a pessimistic and depressing downward spiral. Instead of seeking praise simply rely on your own assessment.Chapters cover life-affecting emotions like anger and guilt and constructs such as justice and ask the reader to control these things rather than be under their sway. If you consider yourself to be under the constraints of learned behaviour then Paradox of Freedom could well offer you the psychological tools to break free.
Author : David Kinley
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421447957
"The author examines the implications of this liberty reset for the ways we negotiate freedom's boundaries as we tend to our unending preoccupations of wealth, work, health, happiness, security, voice, love, and death"--
Author : Ray Kiely
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788114424
This ambitious work provides a history and critique of neoliberalism, both as a body of ideas and as a political practice. It is an original and compelling contribution to the neoliberalism debate.