Critical Review

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Jeffrey Friedman, Editor

Books:

Societal Complexity: System Effects and the Problem of Prediction (ed.) 2014. London: (Routledge.
Political Knowledge, 4 volumes (ed.). 2013. London: Routledge.
The Nature of Belief Systems Reconsidered (ed.) 2012. London: Routledge.
Engineering the Financial Crisis: Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation (with Wladimir Kraus). 2011. Philadelphia: Univeristy of Pennsylvania Press.
What Caused the Financial Crisis (ed.). 2011. Philadelphia: Univeristy of Pennsylvania Press.
The Rational-Choice Controversy (ed.). 1996. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Articles:
Introduction to John Stuart Mill, On Liberty. 1992.
Accounting for Political Preferences: Cultural Theory vs. Cultural History. Critical Review 5(3). 1992.
Introduction to John Locke, Two Treatises of Government. 1994.
The Politics of Communitarianism. Critical Review 8(2). 1994.
Economic Consequentialism and Beyond. Critical Review 8(4). 1994.
Public Opinion and Democracy. Critical Review 10(1). 1996.
Nationalism in Theory and Reality. Critical Review 10(2). 1996.
Introduction to The Rational-Choice Controversy: Economic Models of Politics Reconsidered. Yale University Press, 1996.
Preferences or Happiness? Tibor Scitovsky's Psychology of Human Needs. (with Adam McCabe). Critical Review 10(4). 1997.
What's Wrong with Libertarianism. Critical Review 11(3). 1997.
Public Ignorance and Democratic Theory. Critical Review 12(4) .1998.
After Democracy, Bureaucracy? Critical Review 14(1) 2000.
Public Opinion: Bringing the Media Back In. Critical Review 15(3-4). 2003.
Public Competence In Normative and Positive Theory: Neglected Implications of "The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics." Critical Review 18(1-3). 2006. [References]
Ignorance as a Starting Point: From Modest Epistemology to Realistic Political Theory. Critical Review 19(1). 2007.
A "Weapon in the Hands of the People": The Rhetorical Presidency in Historical and Conceptual Context. Critical Review 19(2-3). 2007.
Review of Bryan Caplan, The Myth of the Rational Voter. Perspectives on Politics 6(1). 2008.
The Irrelevance of Economic Theory to Understanding Economic Ignorance. (with Stephen Earl Bennett). Critical Review 20(3). 2008.
A Crisis of Politics, Not Economics: Complexity, Ignorance, and Policy Failure. Critical Review 21(2-3). 2009.
"Search" vs. "Browse": A Theory of Error Grounded in Radical (Not Rational) Ignorance. (with Anthony Evans). Critical Review 23(1-2). 2011.
Motivated Skepticism or Inevitable Conviction? Dogmatism and the Study of Politics. Critical Review 24(2). 2012.
System Effects and the Problem of Prediction. Critical Review 24(3). 2012.
Beyond Cues and Political Elites: The Forgotten Zaller. Critical Review 24(4). 2012.
Freedom Has No Intrinsic Value: Liberalism and Voluntarism. Critical Review 25(1). 2013.