Practical wisdom
By: Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe
Contributors: Sharpe, Kenneth
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781594487835
Table of contents: title: What wisdom is and why we need it; title: Introductio n: the need for wisdom; title: What wisdom is : the janitor and the judge; title: Balancing acts : why wisdom is practical; title: The machinery of wisdom; title: Born to be wise; title: Thinking with feeling : the value of empathy; title: Learning from experience : the machinery of wisdom; title: The war on wisdom; title: Ruling out wisdom : when judges stop judging and doctors stop prescribing; title: Eroding the empathy to be wise; title: Right by rote: overstandardization and the rise of the canny outlaw; title: The war on will; title: Demoralizing institutions; title: Sources of hope; title: System changers; title: Wisdom and happiness.