Hoodwinking the Nation
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4128-0593-3 (ISBN)
Julian L. Simon was a professor of business administration at the University of Maryland. His many books include: The Ultimate Resource, The Economics of Population Growth, Population Matters, and A Life Against the Grain: The Autobiography of an Unconventional Economist, published by Transaction.
Introduction; 1: What Do Americans Wrongly Believe about Environment, Resources, and Population?; 2: The Vanishing Farmland Scam; 3: The Concepts That Lead to Scares about Resources and Population Growth; 4: Why Does the Public Not Hear Sound Environmental Thinkers?; 5: Why Are So Many Biologists Alarmed?; 6: The Old-Time Journalistic Methods Don't Work Here; 7: Damn Lies, Statistics, and Doomsday; 8: Personal Knowledge versus Media-Shaped Opinions; 9: How Psychology Affects the Evaluation of Trends; 10: Why Do We Hear Prophecies of Doom from Every Side?; Conclusion
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.2.2006 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 272 g |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4128-0593-7 / 1412805937 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4128-0593-3 / 9781412805933 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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