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| Interest: Interest refers to the inclination, motivation or benefit that a person or group has in something. It can include personal preferences as well as involvement in or pursuit of a particular goal or topic that is important or beneficial to the individual._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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James Surowiecki on Interest - Dictionary of Arguments
I 341 Interests/Politics/Surowiecki: in the case of conflicting political decisions, where every actor claims to be acting in the public interest, it is impossible to prove that either or both of them have acted against the public interest. >Method, >Proofs, >Provability. I 342 Problem: political decisions in a democracy do not pose cognition problems, so we cannot expect them to be accessible to the wisdom of the masses. Cf. >Collective intelligence, >Democracy. Nevertheless, answers to cooperation and coordination tasks represent real solutions in the sense that they work on the whole. They are not dictated from above, they come from below. >Cooperation._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Surowi I James Surowiecki Die Weisheit der Vielen: Warum Gruppen klüger sind als Einzelne und wie wir das kollektive Wissen für unser wirtschaftliches, soziales und politisches Handeln nutzen können München 2005 |
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