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

Ramo, Joshua Cooper

ISBN 10: 0316118117 / ISBN 13: 9780316118118

Published by Little, Brown Paperbacks, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
• Publisher: Little, Brown Paperbacks
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316118117
• ISBN 13: 9780316118118
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

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 The traditional physics of power has been replaced by something radically different.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.

About the Author

Joshua Cooper Ramo is the author of the international bestseller The Age of the Unthinkable. He is co-chief executive officer and vice chairman of Kissinger Associates and a member of the board of directors of FedEx and Starbucks. His first book, No Visible Horizon, chronicled his experiences as a competitive aerobatic pilot.