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Written by a Nobel Prize winner in economics, this book explores the two systems of thinking that our brains use: System 1, which is fast, intuitive, and emotional, and System 2, which is slower, more deliberative, and rational.
This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the field of comparative education, covering a wide range of topics including educational systems, policies, and practices.
This comprehensive textbook provides a detailed overview of comparative political systems, covering a wide range of countries and regions.
Examines how our irrational behaviors can lead us to make poor decisions, and it provides strategies for overcoming these biases.
This introductory textbook provides a comprehensive overview of comparative sociology, covering a wide range of topics including social stratification, inequality, and social change.
This introductory textbook provides a comprehensive overview of comparative politics, covering a wide range of topics including political systems, ideologies, and institutions.
This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of different economic systems, including capitalism, socialism, and mixed economies.
Provides a formal account of the logic of comparison, developing a system of rules for reasoning about similarities and differences.
This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the methodology of comparative research, covering a wide range of topics including research design, data collection, and analysis.
This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of comparative social policy, covering a wide range of topics including social welfare, health care, and education.
Explores how we can use behavioral science to design policies that encourage people to make better choices, even when those choices are not in their immediate self-interest.
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the comparative method, the primary tool used by linguists to reconstruct the history of languages and language families.
Classic work in the field of logic and mathematics that explores the fundamental concepts of comparison and their applications in various areas of knowledge.
Provides a comprehensive overview of comparative philosophy, examining the different ways in which philosophers from diverse cultures have approached fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, and morality.
Provides a framework for comparing societies, examining the social and cultural factors that shape their development and change.
Investigates the grammatical structures used to express comparisons in different languages, offering insights into the cognitive processes involved in comparing and contrasting.
Examines how habits work and how we can change them. It provides practical strategies for breaking bad habits and creating good ones.
Explores how having too many choices can lead to decision paralysis and unhappiness.
This essay collection explores the role of comparison in literary and cultural studies, arguing that comparison fundamental tool for understanding and interpreting texts and ideas.
Examines how we tend to rationalize our own mistakes and blame others for theirs.
Provides a framework for making better choices, both big and small.
Provides practical advice for investors on how to overcome behavioral biases.
Explores how our biases can lead us to overpay for things.
Explores how our biases can lead us to make bad decisions, even when we have all the information we need.
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