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09-01-2000 02:39 PM ET (US)
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"Beyond the Stable State" by Donald A. Schon, on the interactions among social, technical and personal systems and world views and on how to conceptualize and accommodate ongoing change in all three. "How the West Grew Rich" by Nathan Rosenberg and L. E. Birdzell, Jr., for a clear-eyed, historically based view of the ways in which government and the marketplace have evolved a mostly successful synergy. "Drug Crazy" by Mike Gray and, for a deeper perspective, "Drug War Politics" by Eva Bertram, et al., on how policies can harden into ideologies and become toxic on a worldwide scale. All of the above are, in one way or another, about how we think under the influence of ignorance, excessive ardor, or fear of the unknown.
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