In his book "The Paradox of Choice," Barry Schwartz describes this way of thinking as "maximising." "Maximizers treat relationships like clothing," he writes. "I expect to try a lot on before ...

The saying goes “choice equals freedom, and freedom equals happiness.” The ability to make decisions and have options and endless possibilities, then, correlates to freedom and happiness.

this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives worth living, even when no cure is in sight. The Paradox of Hope focuses on a group of African American families in a multicultural ...

It’s an idea popularly known as the Paradox of Choice, a term popularized by US psychologist Barry Schwartz in 2004. When our options are limited to a select few, choice is easy. They can ...

The philosophical reasons why we avoid moral conflict were clearly articulated by Alasdair Macintyre in his classic book After Virtue ... Full autonomy in choice of values is part of what it means to ...

Argentina had long been an economic paradox. How did a country that was ... There was really no choice. Argentina had run into a wall. Hyperinflation had reached 20,000 percent, the economy ...

This book will serve as a foundation text for any educator who wishes to dive into that very paradox while exploring topics such as access to clean water, how we reuse and repurpose water, how climate ...

and the paradox of political violence in middle-income countries. The book’s empirical investigation rules out high and rising inequality as a reason for the Arab Spring uprisings. It shows that the ...