Experts Speak

Christopher Cerf & Victor S. Navasky

ISBN 10: 0394713346 / ISBN 13: 9780394713342

Edité par Pantheon, 1984

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Signed by Christopher on first title page, no other markings. Tight solid binding, slight spine reading creases and edge wear.

N° de réf. du vendeur E947

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Experts Speak
• Éditeur: Pantheon
• Date de parution: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0394713346
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780394713342
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Book by Navasky Victor S

Présentation de l'éditeur

Did you ever have the uneasy feeling the experts
are not . . . well, expert?

"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
--Irving Fisher, professor of economics at Yale University, October 17, 1929

"Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel."
--Irving Thalberg's warning to Louis B. Mayer regarding Gone With the Wind

"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out."
--Decca Recording Company executive, turning down the Beatles, 1962

"With over fifty foreign cars already on sale here the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big share of the market for itself."--Business Week, 1968

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
--President of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

"Bill Clinton will lose to any Republican who doesn't drool on stage."
--The Wall Street Journal, in a 1995 editorial

The Experts Speak systematically catalogues, footnotes, and sets straight these and a couple of thousand other examples of expert misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies. The experts have been wrong about everything under, including, and beyond the sun: time, space, the sexes, the races, the environment, economics, politics, crime, education, the media, history, and science. In this expanded and updated edition (now more error-filled than ever), we see just how much the experts don't know.  But the book also goes deeper, presenting a through-the-looking-glass chronicle of human knowledge: the story of what was and is so, as seen through the story of what we wanted to and did believe.