The unknowers : how strategic ignorance rules the world /
"Deliberate ignorance has been known as the 'Ostrich Instruction' in law courts since the 1860s. It illustrates a recurring pattern in history in which figureheads for major companies, political leaders and industry bigwigs plead ignorance to avoid culpability. So why do so many figur...
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London :
Zed Books Ltd.,
2019
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The power to ignore
- Narrow history
- Seeing ignorance differently
- Elite agnotologists
- The Murdoch strategy
- Suspicious attention
- Know-it-all epistocrats
- Conflict blindness
- Masters of industry, masters of ignorance
- The Ostrich Instruction
- Good experts
- The pretence of ignorance
- Conclusion: the great enlargement.