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

Ramo, Joshua Cooper

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0316118087 ISBN 13 : 9780316118088

Editeur : Little, Brown and Company, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Ramo Joshua Cooper

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Thought-provoking....Ramo questions conventional thinking and provides fresh ideas-something we deeply need these days."-Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein

"A great read, a wondrous and unexpected journey through a world that keeps getting more complicated. Joshua Cooper Ramo has a brilliant mind and a beautiful pen, and both are evident in this stimulating book."-Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World

"The formula on display here - reported vignettes, grand theorizing, surprising juxtapositions - will be familiar to readers of Thomas L. Friedman and Malcolm Gladwell, and Ramo executes it with verve." (New York Times Book Review Gary Rosen)

"Former foreign editor of Time, Ramo pushes the reader into uncomfortable yet exhilarating places with controversial ways of thinking about global challenges...Persuasively argued...[Ramo's] revelatory work argues that there must be some audacity in thinking before there can be any audacity of hope." (Publishers Weekly)

"[Ramo's] provocative new book...does a nimble job of showing how such theories shed light on the current political and economic climate while avoiding the worst pitfalls...[he] has managed, in this stimulating volume, to make the reader seriously contemplate the alarming nature of a rapidly changing world." (The New York Times Michiko Kukatani)

"Thought-provoking...highly recommended for anyone who runs a business, is involved in international relations, or cares about our collective future." (The Boston Globe)

"One can hope that Ramo's book may be one of the grains of sand that causes that much-needed avalanche." (San Francisco Chronicle)

"Sparkles with insight and imagination. You'll learn more about foreign policy from this text than you would in most university courses. Seamlessly fuses the bird's-eye and worm's-eye views to render a compelling picture of global security threats.

(Christian Sciene Monitor)

"[A] call to arms for smarter management of this increasingly complex world." (Newsweek)

"Poignant, informed and optimistic." (Forbes)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown and Company
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0316118087
• ISBN 13: 9780316118088
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 288