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The First Freedoms and America's Culture of Innovation de Narain D. Batra

The First Freedoms and America's Culture of Innovation

Autor Narain D. Batra
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 oct 2013
The First Freedoms and the American Culture of Innovation is a thorough examination of the history of American innovation and how our society could not have progressed as far and as fast as it did without its fundamental freedoms. Batra concludes that free speech is the energy that drives American aspiration.
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ISBN-13: 9781442225879
ISBN-10: 1442225874
Pagini: 235
Dimensiuni: 152 x 236 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield

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PREFACE HOW THE BOOK WAS BORN Prometheus and Confucius Human Rights and Julian Assange ACKNOWLEDGMENT INTRODUCTION THE MAKING OF THE ASPIRATIONAL SOCIETY Promethean Possibilities CHAPTER ONE 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 Lesson Doubtfully Trusting How Unscripted Life Enables Innovative Behavior State of Paranoia How The First Amendment Creates Mongrelized Offspring Creative Disequilibrium Warning When US Supreme Court Woke Up Freedom From Irrational Fear Tyranny Of Self-Censorship CHAPTER TWO HOW FREE SPEECH STIMULATES INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR The Re-Making 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 CHAPTER THREE TELLING STORIES TO A HYPER-CONNECTED WORLD A Vigorous and Wide Open Newsosphere Unfiltered and Unbridled Harassment A Hazardous 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¿ Challenge Making Sense New Challenges CHAPTER FOUR 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 Turning Ideas Into Assets Culture of Aspiration and the Arab Street Mashing Up Business Methods Patenting Corporate Speech CHAPTER FIVE 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 Numbers When Drug Companies Sell Snake Oil Free Press and Corporate Behavior Who Do You Call When Nothing Works? CHAPTER SIX CHINA¿S AUTHORITARIANISM CHALLENGES AMERICAN 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 Chinäs Dissenters Will Information Be Free in China? Abundance Without Freedom Half-hearted Freedom The Future Is Dragon. Do You Hear It Coming? Points of Light Innovation in a Closed Society CHAPTER SEVEN POLITICAL INNOVATIONS OF THE ASPIRATIONAL SOCIETY To Live And Die In Freedom That¿s America But What About The Rest Of The World? The Decider-Warrior President War Games and Diplomacy Awesome Temptations of Neo-Imperialism Beware the Power of the Unexpected Building Pillars of Freedom on Soft Power How Does Soft Power Arise? The First Amendment and the Aspirational Society Just and Meritorious Society The Flight Of The Black Swan To The White House The Aspirational Society Must Not Shrug Empathy and Imperialism Propaganda CONCLUSION FREE SPEECH AS ENERGY Pushing the Boundaries of Permissible Thought Dilemma Dependent Origination of the Aspirational Society NOTES INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHOR