The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (593 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001WYVAWK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 171 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The only answer is resiliency" according to Mal Warwick. Resiliency. Maybe that was what was lacking.In the opening pages of The Age of the Unthinkable Joshua Cooper Ramo cites long-time Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan’s 2008 testimony to Congress on finding a “flaw” in his reasoning about how to manage the economy.“In other words,” Greenspan’s questioner said, “you found that you. BillMah said well written and thoughtful. Joahua Ramo makes some interesting links in this book that use logic to project events of the natural world paralleling events in our social/technological world. He uses illustrations like "the sand pile" to promote the theory that large catastrophic events can be triggered by a small event and that there is a fundamental instability and unpredictability in the world of phy. great once you accept the premise JGlasgow The author writes something toward the end which perhaps should more explicably written at the beginning, to grab the reader and frame the argument."It means accepting - because this can never be proved in advance - that change will always produce more good than bad. This is the hope without which the great acts of self- sacrifice and imagination that we now require will be
Environmental strategies to protect species lead to their extinction.The traditional physics of power has been replaced by something radically different. What do you mean? Can established governments and revolutionaries co-exist? Sure they can. Complex financial products designed to manage risk in fact accelerate the spread of unimagined danger through the financial system.Kyoto, Japan. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor. In The Age of the Unthinkable, Joshua Cooper Ramo puts forth a revelatory new model for understanding our dangerously unpredictable world. Hamas and Hizb'allah not only resist Israeli attack but seem to get stronger and much shrewder the harder they are attacked.Wall Street, USA. Second, we all have to partic
Now, drawing upon history, economics, complexity theory, human immunology, psychology and his own extraordinary experiences, Joshua Ramo puts forth a radical new model for looking at the world, one that embraces its inherent unpredictability--and offers our best hope for dealing with problems and disasters as they emerge.. And yet today policies designed to make us safer instead make the world more perilous. Our world is not becoming more stable or flatter or easier to comprehend. Global capitalism, intended to boost the quality of life of people around the world, increases the gap between rich and poor. Environmental techniques engineered to protect species lead to their extinction. Middle East peace plans produce less peace. History's grandest