The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do about It

by Joshua Cooper Ramo

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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The traditional physics of power has been replaced by something radically different.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.
  • ISBN10 0316070017
  • ISBN13 9780316070010
  • Publish Date 23 March 2009 (first published 1 March 2009)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Little Brown and Company
  • Format eBook
  • Language English