Power Without Knowledge

A Critique of Technocracy

von Jeffrey Friedman

408 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Do leading social-scientific experts, or technocrats, know what they are doing? In Power without Knowledge, Jeffrey Friedman maintains that they do not. Friedman shows that people are too heterogeneous to act as predictably as technocracy requires of them. Technocratic reason, then, entails a drastically oversimplified understanding of human decision making in modern society.