Everything is obvious : once you know the answer

Author(s)

• Watts, Duncan J.

Bibliographic Information

Everything is obvious : once you know the answer

Duncan J. Watts

Crown Business, c2011

1st ed

Other Title

Everything is obvious : once you know the answer : how common sense fails us

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-324) and index

Summary: Discusses how the concept of common sense is inadequate in an increasingly complex world and draws on multiple disciplines to offer insight into the sources of such topics as popularity, economics, and self-deception

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Contents of Works

• The myth of common sense
• Thinking about thinking
• The wisdom (and madness) of crowds
• Special people
• History, the fickle teacher
• The dream of prediction
• The best-laid plans
• The measure of all things
• Fairness and justice
• The proper study of mankind

• NCID: BB08539863
• ISBN:
  • 9780385531689
• LCCN: 2010031550
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 335 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BF441
  • DC22 : 153.4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Thought and thinking
  • LCSH : Common sense
  • LCSH : Reasoning