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Un-civilizing America : how win-lose deals set us back
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Details
- Creator
- William Bonner
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2023]
- ©2023
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (419 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781394180578, 1394180578, 139418056X
- OCLC
- on1378390176
- Includes index.
- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 In the Beginning -- Arguing with God -- Ignoble Savages -- Morality Pays -- An Introduction to Bad Guy Theory -- Grave Misgivings -- Chapter 2 On Cooperation and Win-Win -- Rules of the Road -- Win-Win . . . or Lose -- The Winningest Win-Win -- Chapter 3 What Civilization Is Not -- Violence and Persuasion -- The Greatest Killers of All Time -- Disarm Governments -- Can't Make Civilization -- An Invitation to Claptrap -- Train Your Husband -- Chapter 4 What Kind of Game Are We Playing? -- Tit for Tat in the Trenches -- Tax Peter . . . Pay Paul -- Ancient Win-Lose -- Is Defecting Wrong? -- Force Is Not Persuasion -- Chapter 5 Win-Win . . . or Lose -- The Importance of the Vernacular -- A Learning System -- No Satisfaction -- Eat and Produce -- Trust -- The Great Leveler -- History of Inequality -- Stability Leads to Instability -- Four Horsemen of Leveling -- Adding It Up -- Chapter 6 Fake News -- Facts and Myths -- Private Myths -- Large-Scale Myths -- Make America Great Again -- The Trouble with the Truth -- Fake Myths -- Mushy Facts -- Collusion of the Press -- "Well, It's One, Two, Three . . . What Are We Fightin' For?" -- Fake Truth -- Software Outlives Its Useful Life -- Leaping to Absurdity -- Local Heroes -- Numbers Lie Too -- Myths in Collision -- Equal Pay for Equal Work -- Why We Love Fat People -- Chapter 7 Win-Lose Money -- 1971 and All That -- Money and the Deep State -- Money and Civilization -- Fake Money. Real Money. What's the Difference? -- The "Bezzle" -- Ex Nihilo Nilil Fit -- The Future in the Past -- Hayek Was Right -- High Finance for Toddlers -- Why Stimulus Doesn't Work -- Chapter 8 Government-The Ultimate Win-Loser -- Give and Take -- Ordered to Shoot -- Sh*thole Theory -- Back to Charm City -- Why Government Doesn't Work
- Chapter 9 The Deep State -- Hero of the Surge -- The "Pimpocracy" -- Bigger and Broader Than You Think -- Ten Thousand Commandments -- Follow the Money -- Everybody's a Target -- Götterdämmerung for Democracy -- Chapter 10 De-civilizing America -- Professional Wrasslin' -- End of History -- Hell in a Cell -- Folk Tales -- Blond Messiah -- Us Versus Them -- Aftermath -- Revolution -- Bastille Day -- Plague -- Inflation -- Decline and Fall -- War -- Hasn't Anyone Ever Read de Caulincourt? -- A Cold Day in Hell -- The Mission Economy -- Patterns and Cycles -- Why Rome Fell -- Win-Win Versus Win-Lose -- An Afterthought -- Notes -- About the Author -- Index -- EULA