How do you know?
Subtitle: the economics of ordinary knowledge
By: Russell Hardin.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780691137551
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of; Knowledge, Sociology of; Decision making; Social interaction
Description: Hardin presents an essentially economic account of what an individual can come to know and then applies this account to many areas of ordinary life: political participation, religious beliefs, popular knowledge of science, liberalism, culture, extremism, moral beliefs, and institutional knowledge.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.