Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor. Decisions made to stem a financial crisis guarantee its worsening. Environmental strategies to protect species lead to their extinction.The traditional physics of power has been replaced by something radically different. In The Age of the Unthinkable, Joshua Cooper Ramo puts forth a revelatory new model for understanding our dangerously unpredictable world. Drawing upon history, economics, complexity theory, psychology, immunology, and the science of networks, he describes a new landscape of inherent unpredictability--and remarkable, wonderful possibility.
Book Details
Format
Hardcover
ISBN-10
0316118087
ISBN-13
9780316118088
Publication Date
Mar 2009
Item Weight
1.20 pounds
Length
9.49 inch
Width
6.26 inch
Height
0.98 inch
Subtitle
why the new global order constantly surprises us and what to do about it