¿Una cura para la pobreza? Este libro ofrece una nueva explicación sobre por qué el capitalismo tiene éxito en donde lo tiene y, sin embargo, fracasa a la hora de lograr conceder una ayuda social universal, como afirman que debería sus defensores más ruidosos. Al analizar el asunto del problema del metaconocimiento, por qué las personas más desfavorecidas no saben cómo descubrir qué conocimiento es valioso, dónde adquirirlo y cómo financiarlo, el libro descubre la razón esencial para la pobreza sempiterna de comunidades enteras. El libro comienza con un axioma fundamental que expone que el conocimiento es falible (y el metaconocimiento aún más) y discute sus implicaciones para las ideas que surgen en los temas de ayuda social, educación, emprendimiento, banca, legislación, ética y religión. En el apéndice titulado «Guía de un racionalista sobre religión», el libro ofrece una interpretación de las principales creencias religiosas del mundo a la luz del axioma de la falibilidad.
A Cure for Poverty? This book provides a new explanation of why capitalism succeeds where it does, yet fails to achieve universal welfare as its most vocal proponents claim it ought to. By looking at the issue of the meta-knowledge problem--how disadvantaged people do not know how to find out what knowledge is valuable, where to acquire it, and how to finance it--the book discovers the core reason for enduring poverty of entire communities. The book starts with a core axiom that knowledge is fallible (and meta-knowledge even more so) and discusses the implications of that for ideas in welfare, education, entrepreneurship, banking, law, ethics and religion. In its Appendix, entitled "A Rationalist's Guide to Religion" the book provides an interpretation of the world's major faiths in light of the fallibility axiom.
A Cure for Poverty? This book provides a new explanation of why capitalism succeeds where it does, yet fails to achieve universal welfare as its most vocal proponents claim it ought to. By looking at the issue of the meta-knowledge problem--how disadvantaged people do not know how to find out what knowledge is valuable, where to acquire it, and how to finance it--the book discovers the core reason for enduring poverty of entire communities. The book starts with a core axiom that knowledge is fallible (and meta-knowledge even more so) and discusses the implications of that for ideas in welfare, education, entrepreneurship, banking, law, ethics and religion. In its Appendix, entitled "A Rationalist's Guide to Religion" the book provides an interpretation of the world's major faiths in light of the fallibility axiom.
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