More Human - Brossura

Hilton, Steve

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0753556626 ISBN 13: 9780753556627

Casa editrice: WH Allen, 2015

Riassunto

Humans don’t always behave as you expect them to, sometimes their responses and actions are completely irrational – we don’t always make perfect decisions – but that’s the model we base everything on. But why? If we design our systems, our government, all the products and services we use for perfect, rational people, is it any wonder why they aren’t working?

With ever increasing globalisation and technological innovation, we’ve lost our sense of purpose, of community, of perspective. Government, business, healthcare, our jobs, the food we eat, the way we raise and educate our children, the way we relate to the natural world around us, it’s all become too big, too industrialised and impersonal. Inhuman.

Steve Hilton, visiting scholar and lecturer at Stanford University and former senior adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron, shows us that it doesn’t have to be this way, that we have a choice, and we can choose differently. He offers the latest research and compelling stories and case studies from all over the world, across industry, politics, education, design and philanthropy, to show us what can happen when we make our world more human.

Hilton believes that change is possible and necessary: that we can create a more local, more accountable, more human way of living that will make us more productive, more fulfilled and ultimately happier.

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Recensione:

"More Human by Steve Hilton is a very timely book and a powerful call for change in how we measure success and how we value what is most important in our lives. We need a more human way of living and, in this compelling book, Steve Hilton shows us how we can achieve it." (Arianna Huffington)

"'Hilton is the leading modern day exponent of a humanist tradition dating back 2,500 years. His book is a powerful manifesto of sanity in a world in which the human dimension is under ever greater attack from forces that appear to swamp it'." (Anthony Seldon)

"Hilton convinces us that to solve problems we need to work bottom up from the human scale, rather than top down from abstract ideas. One of the most important things people are looking for in their lives is kindness, something that is simply not captured by any of the systems governments use today. He urges us to fight the commodification of policy-making and make things work on a specific, human level." (Nassim Taleb)

Descrizione del libro:

A provocative and timely book; a polemical manifesto for now, from a controversial thinker who is unafraid to challenge the political status quo.

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• Editore: WH Allen
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0753556626
• ISBN 13: 9780753556627
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320