Save lives or save the rhetoric? : comparing the logic of evidence with the power of rhetoric /: comparing the logic of evidence with the power of rhetoric. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David H. Goldenberg.
• Authors: Goldenberg, David Harold, 1949-
• Contents: <span style="font-style:italic;">List of Illustrations <span style="font-style:italic;">List of Tables <span style="font-style:italic;">Acknowledgments <p style="tab-stops:left 0pt;">Introduction: An Evidence-Based versus a Rhetoric-Based Approach to Understanding Public Policy Part 1: Logic and Evidence versus Fallacies and Rhetoric OneWhat Is an Evidence-Based Approach? Can Non-Existence be Proven? TwoWhat Is an Evidence-Based Approach? Is Non-Proportionality Discrimination? ThreeBasic Logic and Fallacies: Necessary versus Sufficient Conditions FourEvidence, Economic Data, and How to Find It FiveMore Fallacies SixEvidence: What it Is, What it Is Not SevenFallacies Based on Personal Attack Part 2: Basic Knowledge for Decision-Making and Evaluating Policy EightMaking Good Decisions and Good Policy: Relative versus Absolute, Opportunity Costs, and Marginalism NineCertainty versus Uncertainty: Multiple Factors, Multiple Uncertain Outcomes, Polls and Their Interpretation TenIndividual Preferences and Opportunities, and the State&rsquo;s Role: Capitalism, Communism, (Democratic) Socialism, and the Welfare State <span style="font-style:italic;">Bibliography <span style="font-style:italic;">Index <span style="font-style:italic;">About the Author
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Hamilton Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 320.6; Political planning; Rhetoric; Communication in politics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780761872061
• Related ISBNs: 9780761872054
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