The Resource Practical wisdom : the right way to do the right thing, Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe
Practical wisdom : the right way to do the right thing, Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe
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The item Practical wisdom : the right way to do the right thing, Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Identifies a loss of common-sense wisdom that has coincided with a collapsing economy, failing schools, and other setbacks, and offers recommendations to identify and cultivate wisdom by combining experience with empathy and intellect
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 324 pages
- Contents
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- What wisdom is and why we need it
- Introduction: the need for wisdom
- What wisdom is : the janitor and the judge
- Balancing acts : why wisdom is practical
- The machinery of wisdom
- Born to be wise
- Thinking with feeling : the value of empathy
- Learning from experience : the machinery of wisdom
- The war on wisdom
- Ruling out wisdom : when judges stop judging and doctors stop prescribing
- Eroding the empathy to be wise
- Right by rote: overstandardisation and the rise of the canny outlaw
- The war on will
- Demoralising institutions
- Sources of hope
- System changers
- Wisdom and happiness
- Isbn
- 9781594485435
- Label
- Practical wisdom : the right way to do the right thing
- Title
- Practical wisdom
- Title remainder
- the right way to do the right thing
- Statement of responsibility
- Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Identifies a loss of common-sense wisdom that has coincided with a collapsing economy, failing schools, and other setbacks, and offers recommendations to identify and cultivate wisdom by combining experience with empathy and intellect
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1946-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Schwartz, Barry
- Dewey number
- 170.44
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Sharpe, Kenneth
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Knowledge and learning
- Thought and thinking
- Conduct of life
- Knowledge, Theory of
- Wisdom
- Label
- Practical wisdom : the right way to do the right thing, Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-315) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- Content type MARC source
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- Contents
- What wisdom is and why we need it -- Introduction: the need for wisdom -- What wisdom is : the janitor and the judge -- Balancing acts : why wisdom is practical -- The machinery of wisdom -- Born to be wise -- Thinking with feeling : the value of empathy -- Learning from experience : the machinery of wisdom -- The war on wisdom -- Ruling out wisdom : when judges stop judging and doctors stop prescribing -- Eroding the empathy to be wise -- Right by rote: overstandardisation and the rise of the canny outlaw -- The war on will -- Demoralising institutions -- Sources of hope -- System changers -- Wisdom and happiness
- Control code
- 000045836812
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 324 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594485435
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2010029239
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)646111798
- Label
- Practical wisdom : the right way to do the right thing, Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-315) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- What wisdom is and why we need it -- Introduction: the need for wisdom -- What wisdom is : the janitor and the judge -- Balancing acts : why wisdom is practical -- The machinery of wisdom -- Born to be wise -- Thinking with feeling : the value of empathy -- Learning from experience : the machinery of wisdom -- The war on wisdom -- Ruling out wisdom : when judges stop judging and doctors stop prescribing -- Eroding the empathy to be wise -- Right by rote: overstandardisation and the rise of the canny outlaw -- The war on will -- Demoralising institutions -- Sources of hope -- System changers -- Wisdom and happiness
- Control code
- 000045836812
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 324 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594485435
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2010029239
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)646111798
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