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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458536303321

Autore

Hammond Kenneth R.

Titolo

Human judgment and social policy : irreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice / / Kenneth R. Hammond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1996

©1996

ISBN

1-280-45133-5

0-19-535704-3

1-60256-050-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (449 p.)

Disciplina

302.3

Soggetti

Social policy - Decision making

Judgment

Uncertainty

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; I: RIVALRY; 1. Irreducible Uncertainty and the Need for Judgment; 2. Duality of Error and Policy Formation; 3. Coping with Uncertainty: The Rivalry Between Intuition and Analysis; II: TENSION; 4. Tension Between Coherence and Correspondence Theories of Competence; 5. The Evolutionary Roots of Correspondence Competence; III: COMPROMISE AND RECONCILIATION; 6. Reducing Rivalry Through Compromise; 7. Task Structure and Cognitive Structure; 8. Reducing Tension Through Complementarity; IV: POSSIBILITIES; 9. Is It Possible to Learn by Intervening?

10. Is It Possible to Learn from Representing?11. Possibilities for Wisdom; 12. The Possible Future of Cognitive Competence; 13. Rivalry, Tension-Forever?; Conclusion; Some Conjectures About Competence; Epilogue; Notes; References; Indexes; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This work focuses on how social policy grows out of the policymaker's judgment about what to do, what can be done, and what ought to be? Answers necessarily emerge from human judgment, and from human



error and the unavoidable uncertainty in the world.