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A Bigger Prize

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

A Bigger Prize

By Margaret Heffernan

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About the book

The Olympics. X-Factor. The Rich List. The Nobel Prize.Everywhere you look: competition - for fame, money, attention, status. Being top seems to be everything - but what is it costing all of us? We depend on competition and expect it to identify the best, make complicated decisions easy and to motivate the lazy and inspire the dreamers. But, as Margaret Heffernan shows in this eye-opening look at competition, competition regularly produces just what we don't want: rising levels of fraud, cheatin...Show more

Social, group or collective psychology

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9781471100765

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Ltd

Published year

2015

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