{"product_id":"technocracy-and-the-epistemology-of-human-behavior-9781032357546","title":"Technocracy and the Epistemology of Human","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePower Without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), Jeffrey Friedman presented a sweeping reinterpretation of modern politics and government as technocratic, even in many of its democratic dimensions. Building on a new definition of technocracy as governance aimed at solving social and economic problems, Friedman showed that the epistemic demands that such governance places on political elites and ordinary people alike may be overwhelming if technocrats fail to attend to the ideational heterogeneity of the human beings whose control is the object of technocratic power. Yet a recognition of ideational heterogeneity considerably complicates the task of predicting behavior, which is essential to technocratic controlas Friedman demonstrated with pathbreaking critiques of the homogenizing strategies of neoclassical economics, positivist social science, behavioral economics, and populist democratic politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTechnocracy and the Epistemology of Human Behavior\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019001332055,"sku":"9781032357546","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032357546.jpg?v=1750778980","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/technocracy-and-the-epistemology-of-human-behavior-9781032357546","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}