The Age of the Unthinkable

Number of page: 288
Author: Joshua Cooper Ramo
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316070017
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Category: Political Science

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 Environmental strategies to protect species lead to their extinction.The traditional physics of power has been replaced by something radically different.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.

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About The Author

Joshua Cooper Ramo was raised in Los Ranchos, New Mexico, alongside the Rio Grande River. He began flying in his late teens and holds two U.S. national point-to-point airspeed records. He is currently training for a paraglider descent of New Mexico's highest peak. He joined "Time" in 1996 as the youngest senior editor in the magazine's history and went on to become its foreign editor and assistant managing editor. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the World Economic Forum's Global Leaders of Tomorrow, as well as a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a cofounder of the U.S.-China Young Leaders Forum.

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