Societal Dynamics Understanding Social Knowledge and Wisdom /

• Main Author: Betz, Frederick (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management ; 11
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Economic history.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Social Sciences, general.; Sociology, general.; Methodology/History of Economic Thought.

At both a micro-information level and a macro-societal level, the concepts of “knowledge” and “wisdom” are complementary – in both decisions and in social structures and institutions.  At the decision level, knowledge is concerned with how to make a proper choice of means, where “best” is measured a...