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Subtitle: the surprising payoff of trial-and-error for business, politics, and society
By: Jim Manzi
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780465023240; 9780465029310
Subjects: Social aspects; Experiments; Research; Social sciences; Experimental design
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Induction and the problem of induction; title: Falsification and paradigms; title: Implicit and explicit knowledge; title: Science as a social enterprise; title: Science without experiments; title: Some observations concerning probability; title: The invention and application of the randomized trial; title: Limitations of randomized trials; title: Non-experimental social science; title: Business strategy as applied social science; title: The experimental revolution in business; title: Experimental social science; title: Liberty as means; title: Innovation and cohesion; title: Sustainable innovation.