Uncontrolled : the surprising payoff of trial-and-error for business, politics, and society /
Entrepreneur and political commentator Jim Manzi argues for a radical new approach to our most pressing economic and social problems, using the scientific method--and its controlled experiments and skeptical mindset--to test what works in business and government.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2012]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Induction and the problem of induction
- Falsification and paradigms
- Implicit and explicit knowledge
- Science as a social enterprise
- Science without experiments
- Some observations concerning probability
- The invention and application of the randomized trial
- Limitations of randomized trials
- Non-experimental social science
- Business strategy as applied social science
- The experimental revolution in business
- Experimental social science
- Liberty as means
- Innovation and cohesion
- Sustainable innovation.