The Complacent Class - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Complacent Class write by Tyler Cowen. This book was released on 2017-02-28. The Complacent Class available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the trend of Americans away from the traditionally mobile, risk-accepting, and adaptable tendencies that defined them for much of recent history, and toward stagnation and comfort, and how this development has the potential to make future changes more disruptive. --Publisher's description.
Complacency
Complacency - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Complacency write by John T. Hamilton. This book was released on 2022-04-22. Complacency available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This short book examines the history of complacency in Classics with implications for our contemporary moment. It responds to a published piece by the philosopher Simon Blackburn ["The Seven Deadly Sins of the Academy," Times Higher Education (2009)] who presented "complacency" as a vice that impairs university study at its core. If today this sin is most discernible among scientists who feel that their rigorous training and verifiable results authorize them to assume omniscience in all areas of learning, this book points out that, from the nineteenth to early twentieth century, this presumption fell instead to Classicists. The subjects, philosophies, and literatures of ancient Greece and Rome were treated as the foundation of learning; everything else devolving from them. What, Hamilton wants to know, might this model of superiority derived from the golden age of the Classical Tradition share with the current hegemony of mathematics and the natural sciences? How can the qualitative methods of Classics relate to the quantitative methods of big data, statistical reasoning, and numerical abstraction, which currently characterize academic complacency? And how did the discipline of Classics lose its prominent standing in the university, yielding its position to more empirical modes of research? Finally, how does this particular strain of scholarly smugness inflect the personal, ethical, and political complacency we encounter today?"--
Trapped! Escaping the Comfort of Complacency
Trapped! Escaping the Comfort of Complacency - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trapped! Escaping the Comfort of Complacency write by Kevin Tutt. This book was released on 2015-10-29. Trapped! Escaping the Comfort of Complacency available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is human nature to try to make things easier, more routine or, as the book title suggests, more comfortable. We see comfort as a good thing, and in and of itself, it is. However, when we become comfortable with what seems to be good enough, we lose the drive that leaders want in individuals. There is no more passion, motivation, excitement, ownership, accountability or initiative. The fact is, we become dormant and find ourselves simply going through the motions of life, in our careers, families and personal life. We begin to complain that it is the fault of others around us-my job, my boss, my spouse, my kids, my friends-when the reality is that we have simply stepped squarely into the trap of complacency. This book addresses seven key areas to help free you from complacency and challenge you to rekindle your passion and desire for success.
Complacent Nation
Complacent Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Complacent Nation write by Gavin Ellis. This book was released on 2016-08-12. Complacent Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New Zealanders are too complacent about the continuing erosion of their right to know what government is doing on their behalf. Political risk has become a primary consideration in whether official information requests will be met, and successive governments have allowed free speech rights to be overridden. Drawing on decades of experience as a journalist and editor, Gavin Ellis chronicles the patterns of erosion and calls for entrenchment of the Bill of Rights Act. As supreme law, it would set a high bar that politicians must hurdle before freedom of expression could be curtailed.
The Stupidity of War
The Stupidity of War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Stupidity of War write by John Mueller. This book was released on 2021-03-04. The Stupidity of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This innovative argument shows the consequences of increased aversion to international war for foreign and military policy.
