Human Social Learning

What explains the growing class divide between the well-educated and everybody else? Noted author Brink Lindsey, a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation, argues that it's because economic expansion is creating an increasingly complex world in which only a minority with the right knowledge and skills - the right "human capital" - reap the majority of the economic rewards. The complexity of today's economy is not only making these lucky elites richer - it is also making them smarter.

The Education Myth questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the only, way for Americans to access economic opportunity. As Jon Shelton shows, linking education to economic well-being was not politically inevitable. In the 18th and 19th centuries, for instance, public education was championed as a way to help citizens learn how to participate in a democracy. By the 1930s, public education, along with union rights and social security, formed an important component of a broad-based fight for social democracy.

How to Analyze People will walk you through how to look beyond the masks that are put on by the people around you, every day. So, begin observing the little clues and gestures that are often responsible for giving away a person’s true thoughts and intentions. Each and every single person around you is giving off signals and clues each day, and once you’re done listening to this book, you’ll be one step closer to mastering the art of analyzing people without them ever having to say a word.