{"product_id":"save-lives-or-save-the-rhetoric-9780761872054","title":"Save Lives or Save the Rhetoric","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis timely book discusses the numerous forms of flawed reasoning that currently plague the realm of public discourse both in the United States and abroad. This book provides and develops a working knowledge of the skills needed to distinguish between rhetorical claims and evidence based claims. The author presents and shows how to debug numerous currently relevant real world examples. Innovative discussion questions provide the reader an opportunity to practice and be actively involved. The objective throughout is pedagogy, not partisanship: to help the reader better understand current events, better evaluate public policy, identify its rhetoric and that of partisan debates. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Tables\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: An Evidence-Based versus a Rhetoric-Based Approach to Understanding Public Policy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1: Logic and Evidence versus Fallacies and Rhetoric\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOneWhat Is an Evidence-Based Approach? Can Non-Existence be Proven?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwoWhat Is an Evidence-Based Approach? Is Non-Proportionality Discrimination?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThreeBasic Logic and Fallacies: Necessary versus Sufficient Conditions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFourEvidence, Economic Data, and How to Find It\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFiveMore Fallacies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixEvidence: What it Is, What it Is Not\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSevenFallacies Based on Personal Attack\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2: Basic Knowledge for Decision-Making and Evaluating Policy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEightMaking Good Decisions and Good Policy: Relative versus Absolute, Opportunity Costs, and Marginalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNineCertainty versus Uncertainty: Multiple Factors, Multiple Uncertain Outcomes, Polls and Their Interpretation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTenIndividual Preferences and Opportunities, and the State’s Role: Capitalism, Communism, (Democratic) Socialism, and the Welfare State\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rlpg\/Galleys","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037895229783,"sku":"9780761872054","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780761872054.jpg?v=1750938067","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/save-lives-or-save-the-rhetoric-9780761872054","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}