Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy or Judgment in Managerial Decision Making

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

Author: Barrington Moore Jr

Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

New Foreword by Edward Friedman and James C. Scott

"A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn how we arrived at where we are now."
-The New York Times Book Review

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface and Acknowledgments
Pt. 1	Revolutionary Origins of Capitalist Democracy
Ch. I	England and the Contributions of Violence to Gradualism
Ch. II	Evolution and Revolution in France
Ch. III	The American Civil War: The Last Capitalist Revolution
Pt. 2	Three Routes to the Modern World in Asia
	Note: Problems in Comparing European and Asian Politic al Processes
Ch. IV	The Decay of Imperial China and the Origins of the Communist Variant
Ch. V	Asian Fascism: Japan
Ch. VI	Democracy in Asia: India and the Price of Peaceful Change
Pt. 3	Theoretical Implications and Projections
Ch. VII	The Democratic Route to Modern Society
Ch. VIII	Revolution from Above and Fascism
Ch. IX	The Peasants and Revolution
	Epi logue: Reactionary and Revolutionary Imagery
	Appendix: A Note on Statistics and Conservative Historiography
	Bibliography
	Index

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Judgment in Managerial Decision Making

Author: Don Moor

In situations requiring careful judgment, every individual is influenced by their own biases to some extent. With Bazerman's new seventh edition, readers can quickly learn how to overcome those biases to make better managerial decisions. The book examines judgment in a variety of organizational contexts, and provides practical strategies for changing and improving decision-making processes so that they become part of one's permanent behavior.

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Provides training in decision making by creating awareness of the decision-making process and by offering strategies for improving these processes. For use in undergraduate economics, psychology, and organizational behavior courses. This fourth edition provides more contemporary examples of real-world decisions, a new chapter on motivational biases, and expanded material on decision-making from individual and multi-party perspectives. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1 Introduction to managerial decision making 1

Ch. 2 Common biases 13

Ch. 3 Bounded awareness 42

Ch. 4 Framing and the reversal of preferences 62

Ch. 5 Motivational and emotional influences on decision making 84

Ch. 6 The escalation of commitment 101

Ch. 7 Fairness and ethics in decision making 113

Ch. 8 Common investment mistakes 136

Ch. 9 Making rational decisions in negotiations 151

Ch. 10 Negotiator cognition 168

Ch. 11 Improving decision making 179

References 200

Index 223