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7608297When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...https://www.gandhi.com.mx/when-everyone-knows-that-everyone-knows----9781802061871/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7233447/image.jpg?v=638877796896700000527643MXNPenguin Books LtdInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>One of the most insightful books Ive read about what makes us human and how we understand each other Bill Gates</strong></p><p><strong>Steven Pinker, one of the worlds greatest thinkers and bestselling author of <em>Enlightenment Now, The Better Angels of Our Nature</em> and <em>The Language Instinct</em>, reveals the power and perils of thinking alike</strong></p><p>As a cognitive scientist, the ultimate subject of Steven Pinkers fascination is how we think about each others thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public or out there, is called <em>common knowledge,</em> and it has a momentous impact on our social, political, and economic lives.</p><p>Common knowledge, Pinker shows, can make sense of many of lifes enigmas: financial bubbles and crashes, revolutions that come out of nowhere, the posturing and pretence of diplomacy, the eruption of social media shaming mobs and academic cancel culture, the awkwardness of a first date. But people also go to great lengths to <em>avoid</em> common knowledgeto ensure that even if everyone knows something, they cant know that everyone else knows they know it. And so we get rituals like benign hypocrisy, veiled bribes and threats, sexual innuendo, and pretending not to see the elephant in the room.</p><p>In exploring the paradoxes of human behaviour, <em>When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows</em> invites us to understand the ways we try to get into each others heads, and the harmonies, hypocrisies, and outrages that result.</p>...7218975When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...527643https://www.gandhi.com.mx/when-everyone-knows-that-everyone-knows----9781802061871/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7233447/image.jpg?v=638877796896700000InStockMXN99999PR_DIEbook20259781802061871_W3siaWQiOiJlYTgxODViYi0xNTRhLTQ3ZWEtOGEzNS0xMWEzYWFiNzMzNWUiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjY0MywiZGlzY291bnQiOjExNiwic2VsbGluZ1ByaWNlIjo1MjcsImluY2x1ZGVzVGF4Ijp0cnVlLCJwcmljZVR5cGUiOiJXaG9sZXNhbGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6Ik1YTiIsImZyb20iOiIyMDI1LTA3LTAxVDAwOjAwOjAwWiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6dHJ1ZX1d9781802061871_<p><strong>One of the most insightful books Ive read about what makes us human and how we understand each other Bill Gates</strong></p><p><strong>Steven Pinker, one of the worlds greatest thinkers and bestselling author of <em>Enlightenment Now, The Better Angels of Our Nature</em> and <em>The Language Instinct</em>, reveals the power and perils of thinking alike</strong></p><p>As a cognitive scientist, the ultimate subject of Steven Pinkers fascination is how we think about each others thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public or out there, is called <em>common knowledge,</em> and it has a momentous impact on our social, political, and economic lives.</p><p>Common knowledge, Pinker shows, can make sense of many of lifes enigmas: financial bubbles and crashes, revolutions that come out of nowhere, the posturing and pretence of diplomacy, the eruption of social media shaming mobs and academic cancel culture, the awkwardness of a first date. But people also go to great lengths to <em>avoid</em> common knowledgeto ensure that even if everyone knows something, they cant know that everyone else knows they know it. And so we get rituals like benign hypocrisy, veiled bribes and threats, sexual innuendo, and pretending not to see the elephant in the room.</p><p>In exploring the paradoxes of human behaviour, <em>When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows</em> invites us to understand the ways we try to get into each others heads, and the harmonies, hypocrisies, and outrages that result.</p>...9781802061871_Penguin Books Ltdlibro_electonico_9781802061871_9781802061871Steven PinkerInglésMéxico2025-09-23T00:00:00+00:002025-09-23T00:00:00+00:00Penguin Books Ltd