"Richer nations are happier, yet economic growth doesn't increase happiness. This paradox is explained by the 'hidden wealth of nations'--the extent to which citizens get along with others independently drives both economic growth and well-being. Much of this hidden wealth is ex…
"Richer nations are happier, yet economic growth doesn't increase happiness. This paradox is explained by the 'hidden wealth of nations'--the extent to which citizens get along with others independently drives both economic growth and well-being. Much of this hidden wealth is ex…
"Rational Lives is a study of value formation and change, group identification, and conflict over social norms and lifestyles. Most scholars who study value conflicts have resisted rational choice approaches to the subject on the grounds that social conflict between groups is be…
Those who study value conflicts have resisted rational choice approaches in the social sciences, contending that political conflict over cultural values is best explained by group loyalties, symbolic motives, and other "nonrational" factors. However, Chong shows that a single mo…
"Rational Lives is a study of value formation and change, group identification, and conflict over social norms and lifestyles. Most scholars who study value conflicts have resisted rational choice approaches to the subject on the grounds that social conflict between groups is be…
"This is a successor work to Why the West Rules for Now, in which Morris once again advances an ambitious account of how certain 'brute material forces' limit and help determine the 'culture, values, and beliefs,' including the moral codes, that humans have adopted over the last…
"Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology…
Based on 11 surveys involving many interviews with members of the public & Parliament, this book provides an account of the extent to which they have rejected communist ideals & adopted nationalist and/or liberal democratic values.
Ever since its medieval origin, the concept of the university has continued to change. The metaphysical university gave way successively to the scientific university, and then to the corporate and the entrepreneurial university. This title charts this conceptual development and …