Barry Schwartz, Author University of Chicago Press $27.5 (382p) ISBN 978-0-226-74197-0
There have been many studies of Lincoln's life and how it has come to be perceived in the minds of Americans, the best being Merrill Peterson's Abraham Lincoln in American Memory (1994). Schwartz's scholarly account manages only to be a workman-like
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Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe, Riverhead, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-594-48783-5
Schwartz (The Paradox of Choice) and Sharpe, both professors at Swarthmore College, explore our increasing distrust of and disenchantment with our institutions—governmental, medical, legal—an alienation shared by professionals such as doctors,...
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Barry Schwartz, Author Ecco $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-000568-9
Like Thoreau and the band Devo, psychology professor Schwartz provides ample evidence that we are faced with far too many choices on a daily basis, providing an illusion of a multitude of options when few honestly different ones actually exist. The...
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Barry Schwartz, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (348p) ISBN 978-0-393-02319-0
Are people basically selfish creatures out to further their own interests and goals? In this brilliant investigation, Schwartz (Psychology of Learning and Behavior, etc.), a Swarthmore psychology professor, exposes the hidden assumptions that cause...
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Barry Schwartz and Richard Schuldenfrei. Yale Univ, $32.50 (320p) ISBN 978-0-300-28399-0
Schwartz (The Paradox of Choice) and Schuldenfrei, psychology professor emeritus and philosophy professor emeritus, respectively, at Swarthmore, mount a comprehensive case against rational choice theory, which posits that people make decisions by...
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