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• Praise
• About The Author
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: The Power to Ignore
• REFUSING TO IGNORE THE POWER OF IGNORANCE
• BLISSFUL IGNORANCE?
• MICRO-IGNORANCE AND MACRO-IGNORANCE
• THE STRONGS, THE SMARTS AND THE GREATS: AN OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK
• 1: Narrow History
• CREDIBILITY DEFICITS
• AGNOTOLOGY AND ITS LIMITS
• THE LEGITIMACY OF QUESTIONING EXPERT AUTHORITY
• THE BANNON–PINKER CONUNDRUM
• PSYCHOLOGICAL BLINKERS
• A NEW DEFINITION OF RATIONAL IGNORANCE
• 2: Seeing Ignorance Differently
• USEFUL UNKNOWNS
• IGNORANCE ALIBIS
• ORACULAR POWER
• ORACULAR POWER IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
• ORACULAR ‘ENLIGHTENMENT’
• IGNORANCE UNSHARED
• TORTURE AND THE TESTIMONY OF EXPERTS
• GOD AND WEALTH
• 3: Elite Agnotologists
• MISPERCEIVING THE IGNORANCE OF ELITES
• AFFLUENT RACISTS
• IS ‘FAKE NEWS’ THE MAIN PROBLEM?
• NATIONAL FORGETTING
• TAKING ELITE IGNORANCE SERIOUSLY
• VOTER IGNORANCE AND EPISTOCRACY
• MORALITY AND EDUCATION
• THE IGNORANCE EXCUSE
• 4: The Murdoch Strategy
• VICTORY FOR MURDOCH
• THE TRUTH WILL OUT?
• BUREAUCRATIC QUAGMIRES
• UNDERSTANDING THE ANTI-CLIMAX
• MURDOCH’S WORD
• BEHIND THE FAÇADE
• AN ACADEMIC SCANDAL
• THE NARROWING OF THE ACADEMIC GAZE
• FROM ELITE TO REVOLUTIONARY IGNORANCE
• 5: Suspicious Attention
• THE NEOCLASSICAL TURN
• SHARED PROSPERITY?
• SMITH: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE IGNORED
• THE VALUE OF ‘SUSPICIOUS ATTENTION’
• A KNOWLEDGE HEIST
• VOLTE-FACE
• WHAT’S IN A NAME?
• 6: Know-It-All Epistocrats
• FROM KNOWERS TO UNKNOWERS
• CAN A MAN IN LOVE SPEAK THE TRUTH?
• LIBERAL CENSORSHIP
• BLINDSPOTS
• THE SPELL OF PLATO
• CHALLENGING THE KNOW-IT-ALLS TODAY
• 7: Conflict Blindness
• UNACCOUNTABLE TRADE
• UNFINISHED BUSINESS
• FINE IN THEORY
• THE REAL WEALTH OF NATIONS
• 8: Masters of Industry, Masters of Ignorance
• IGNORED HISTORY
• DEMOCRATIC WEAPONS OF FREEDOM
• THE LANGUAGE TRICK
• THE BIRTH OF THE CEO IGNORANCE ALIBI
• THE RIFLE DIET
• NEVER WRITE ANYTHING DOWN
• WHO KNEW?
• GLOSSING CONFLICT
• WORLD BANK DOUBLESPEAK
• MILESTONES
• SEE NO EVIL
• 9: The Ostrich Instruction
• USEFUL IGNORANCE IN LEGAL HISTORY
• EQUAL CULPABILITY
• WHEN YOU’RE BIG ENOUGH, IGNORANCE DOES EXCUSE
• THAT’S ILLEGAL?!
• THE SNOWMOBILE FALLACY
• VOTER IGNORANCE SEE-SAWS
• GOOD TIMING
• THE WILL TO IGNORE
• 10: Good Experts
• SELF-FULFILLING REGULATORY FAILURE
• PRUDENT REGULATION
• IGNORANCE BATTLES
• THE LEGAL FALLOUT
• FROM HERO TO PARIAH
• SHOW ME THE EVIDENCE
• EXPERTS AND EPISTOCRACY
• IT’S EASIER AT THE TOP
• EAR PAIN
• RESTITUTION
• KNOWING WHAT NOT TO KNOW
• 11: The Pretence of Ignorance
• COMPROMISED EXPERTISE
• HIDDEN DATA IN PLAIN SIGHT
• PRUDENCE OR NEGLIGENCE?
• DAUGHTERS
• CROSSING THE LINE
• ENTRENCHED BELIEFS
• THE DEMOCRACY ADVANTAGE
• DISSERVICE TO HEROES
• STOP SEEING
• THE REVIVAL OF CHECKS AND BALANCES
• Conclusion: The Great Enlargement
• GREATER HISTORY
• FROM STRATEGIC IGNORANCE TO EMANCIPATIVE IGNORANCE
• THE NEW AND THE OLD
• THE UNFINISHED CHALLENGE
• INCONVENIENT TRUTHS
• BLAME GOD?
• THE LORDE PRINCIPLE
• Notes
• Index