The Sea We Swim In Democratic Systems

The Sea We Swim In Democratic SystemsIn The Sea We Swim In, Frank Rose leads us to a new understanding of stories and their role in our lives. For decades, experts from many fields psychologists, economists, advertising and marketing executives failed to register the power of narrative. Scientists thought stories were frivolous. Economists were knee deep in theory. Marketers just wanted to cut to the sales pitch. Yet stories, not reasoning, are the key to persuasion. Whether we're aware

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This book tells the stories of the “officially Unemployed” and the “forgotten jobless”—a digital-era demographic that turned to side hustles—and reveals how they fared

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and memoirs and draws on contemporary research and interviews with Americans of different ages and backgrounds to document how our emotions have been transformed by technological change

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