Trial & Error
This book is an analysis of progress - its meaning, its constituent elements, the conditions that favour it, and the methods people use to achieve it. Dr Pirie puts the case that humans act purposively to achieve their objectives, testing possible actions against each other to determine which ones best do that. He concludes that progress is made more readily in societies where people are free to pursue separate goals and to test alternative means of achieving them.
This book is an analysis of progress - its meaning, its constituent elements, the conditions that favour it, and the methods people use to achieve it. Dr Pirie puts the case that humans act purposively to achieve their objectives, testing possible actions against each other to determine which ones best do that. He concludes that progress is made more readily in societies where people are free to pursue separate goals and to test alternative means of achieving them.
This book is an analysis of progress - its meaning, its constituent elements, the conditions that favour it, and the methods people use to achieve it. Dr Pirie puts the case that humans act purposively to achieve their objectives, testing possible actions against each other to determine which ones best do that. He concludes that progress is made more readily in societies where people are free to pursue separate goals and to test alternative means of achieving them.