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Author : Timothy Mitchell
Release : 2002-11-18
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 624/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rule of Experts by : Timothy Mitchell
Download or read book Rule of Experts written by Timothy Mitchell. This book was released on 2002-11-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Timothy Mitchell
Release : 2002-11-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 253/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rule of Experts by : Timothy Mitchell
Download or read book Rule of Experts written by Timothy Mitchell. This book was released on 2002-11-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world? Rule of Experts examines these questions through a series of interrelated essays focused on Egypt in the twentieth century. These explore the way malaria, sugar cane, war, and nationalism interacted to produce the techno-politics of the modern Egyptian state; the forms of debt, discipline, and violence that founded the institution of private property; the methods of measurement, circulation, and exchange that produced the novel idea of a national "economy," yet made its accurate representation impossible; the stereotypes and plagiarisms that created the scholarly image of the Egyptian peasant; and the interaction of social logics, horticultural imperatives, powers of desire, and political forces that turned programs of economic reform in unanticipated directions. Mitchell is a widely known political theorist and one of the most innovative writers on the Middle East. He provides a rich examination of the forms of reason, power, and expertise that characterize contemporary politics. Together, these intellectually provocative essays will challenge a broad spectrum of readers to think harder, more critically, and more politically about history, power, and theory.
Author : Professor and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern South Asian and African Studies Timothy Mitchell
Release : 2002-11-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 615/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rule of Experts by : Professor and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern South Asian and African Studies Timothy Mitchell
Download or read book Rule of Experts written by Professor and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern South Asian and African Studies Timothy Mitchell. This book was released on 2002-11-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Gil Eyal
Release : 2019-10-24
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 879/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Crisis of Expertise by : Gil Eyal
Download or read book The Crisis of Expertise written by Gil Eyal. This book was released on 2019-10-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent political debates there has been a significant change in the valence of the word “experts” from a superlative to a near pejorative, typically accompanied by a recitation of experts’ many failures and misdeeds. In topics as varied as Brexit, climate change, and vaccinations there is a palpable mistrust of experts and a tendency to dismiss their advice. Are we witnessing, therefore, the “death of expertise,” or is the handwringing about an “assault on science” merely the hysterical reaction of threatened elites? In this new book, Gil Eyal argues that what needs to be explained is not a one-sided “mistrust of experts” but the two-headed pushmi-pullyu of unprecedented reliance on science and expertise, on the one hand, coupled with increased skepticism and dismissal of scientific findings and expert opinion, on the other. The current mistrust of experts is best understood as one more spiral in an on-going, recursive crisis of legitimacy. The “scientization of politics,” of which critics warned in the 1960s, has brought about a politicization of science, and the two processes reinforce one another in an unstable, crisis-prone mixture. This timely book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the social sciences and to anyone concerned about the political uses of, and attacks on, scientific knowledge and expertise.
Author : William Easterly
Release : 2014-03-04
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 901/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Tyranny of Experts by : William Easterly
Download or read book The Tyranny of Experts written by William Easterly. This book was released on 2014-03-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "bracingly iconoclastic” book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and the rights that poor individuals have had taken away for generations. In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly examines our failing efforts to fight global poverty, and argues that the "expert approved" top-down approach to development has not only made little lasting progress, but has proven a convenient rationale for decades of human rights violations perpetrated by colonialists, postcolonial dictators, and US and UK foreign policymakers seeking autocratic allies. Demonstrating how our traditional antipoverty tactics have both trampled the freedom of the world's poor and suppressed a vital debate about alternative approaches to solving poverty, Easterly presents a devastating critique of the blighted record of authoritarian development. In this masterful work, Easterly reveals the fundamental errors inherent in our traditional approach and offers new principles for Western agencies and developing countries alike: principles that, because they are predicated on respect for the rights of poor people, have the power to end global poverty once and for all.
