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Book Announcement: How Do You Know by Hardin

By Lawrence Solum

How Do You Know? The Economics of Ordinary Knowledge
Russell Hardin

To read the entire book description or a sample chapter, please visit: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8928.html
How do ordinary people come to know or believe what they do? Russell Hardin supposes that people are not usually going to act knowingly against their interests or other purposes. To try to understand how they have come to their knowledge or beliefs is therefore to be charitable in assessing their rationality. Hardin insists on such a charitable stance in the effort to understand others and their sometimes objectively perverse actions.

Cloth | $35.00 / £19.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-13755-1

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on May 05, 2009 (boomark / email).