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Batra N. D (Narain Dass), <1937-> |
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The first freedoms and America's culture of innovation : the constitutional foundations of the aspirational society / / Narain D. Batra |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, , 2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (251 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Freedom of expression - Economic aspects - United States |
National characteristics, American |
Technological innovations - Law and legislation - Economic aspects - United States |
Technology and law - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface: How the Book Was Born; Prometheus and Confucius; Human Rights and Julian Assange; Gratitude; Introduction: The Making of the Aspirational Society; Promethean Possibilities of the Aspirational Society; 1 Turbulence and Harmony; The Cauldron of Creativity; Pragmatism; Pursuing the Freedom Trail Wherever It Leads; Court Ruling; But Thank God: For Every Jerry Falwell There's Larry Flynt; Crude and Outrageous Speech as Corrective; The First Amendment Is More Than Free Speech; Historians Need Lessons; Doubtfully Trusting; How Unscripted Life Enables Innovative Behavior |
State of ParanoiaHow the First Amendment Creates Mongrelized Offspring; Creative Disequilibrium; Warning; When the U.S. Supreme Court Woke Up; Freedom from Irrational Fear; Tyranny of Self-Censorship; 2 How Free Speech Stimulates Innovative Behavior; The Remaking of Motherhood and Other Wonders; Right of Procreation; Mitigating Reproductive Constraints; Seeking Answers; Freedom from Revealed Truth; Eternal Optimism for Making the World a Better Place; Sustainable Innovation; Civic Participation; Openness Makes Americans Inventive; Global Brain-Grid Emerging; Democratization and Innovation |
3 Telling Stories to a Hyperconnected WorldA Vigorous and Wide Open Newsosphere; Unfiltered and Unbridled; Harassment; A Hazardous |
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Vocation; Balancing Competing Interests; Trust, But Verify; Outrageously Transparent; Continuum of the Fake and the Real; Unreliable Sources; News: Simulation and Dissimulation; Dark Journalism; Social Media and Online Civic Journalism; Empowering Citizen Journalists; Exaggerated Fears; News Media and Innovation; Exceptional; The Power of Weak Ties; Building Trust in Social Networks; Can Social Networking Create Social Capital Despite Weak Ties? |
WikiLeaks's ChallengeMaking Sense; New Challenges; 4 Commercial Speech and Innovation; The Soft Power of Aspirational Brands; Status Change; Challenging Authority; Commercial Speech and the Public Interest; Language and Innovation; Fired Up and Get Going; Beautiful Deceptions; The Culture of Aspiration and the Arab Street; Turning Ideas into Assets; Mashing Up; Business Methods Patenting; Corporate Speech; 5 Free Press and Marketplace Fundamentalism; The Dark Side of the Aspirational Society; Sources of Corruption; Insatiable at the Top; Hit the Numbers or You Are Out |
The Moral Neutrality of NumbersMoney, Money, Money, and More Money; When Drug Companies Sell Snake Oil; Free Press and Corporate Behavior; Who Do You Call When Nothing Works?; 6 China's Authoritarianism Challenges American Democratic Exceptionalism; The Roar of the Dragon; Vicious Capitalist Energy; Extreme Nationalism; No Gratitude; Pacific Ocean Issue; Can China Challenge America without Embracing the First Freedoms?; Pragmatism; Dissidents in the Digital Age; Human Rights; Virtual Struggle; Cyber Resistance; The Persistence of China's Dissenters; Will Information Be Free in China? |
Abundance without Freedom |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The First Freedoms and America's Culture of Innovation explores how the triangulation of the First Freedoms, open and competitive marketplace, and global brain-and-muscle-inflow into the Unites States generates spaces for Americans to become constant tinkerers, innovators, and entrepreneurs. Innovation at the highest level is a form of creative transgression that generates entrepreneurial possibilities and opens up opportunities that make up the aspirational society. If history has a pattern of decline and fall, the First Amendment is the m |
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