The Age Of The Unthinkable by Joshua Ramo

The Age Of The Unthinkable by Joshua Ramo

For decades we have confidently believed in our models for the way the world works. Light-touch capitalism creates wealth everywhere; spread democracy and you spread peace; terrorists need to be crushed by overwhelming force. Yet the evidence that this way of looking at things is flawed has become simply overwhelming. The credit crisis, the failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, even the fall of the Soviet Union - all were unthinkable, all defied what was supposed to happen. Our models no longer work because they fail to take into account simply how totally unpredictable the world is. Just as Nassim Nicholas Taleb's bestselling book THE BLACK SWAN looked at the impact of improbable events, this book looks at how the unthinkable has come to govern everything - and how we have to embrace it or risk catastrophe.

Joshua Ramo is Managing Director and a partner at Kissinger Associates, one of the world's leading strategic advisory firms. Prior to joining Kissinger Associates, he was Assistant Managing Editor of Time, and worked in the advisory and banking business in China.

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ISBN 13	9781408700594
ISBN 10	140870059X
Titre	The Age Of The Unthinkable
Auteur	Joshua Ramo
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Little, Brown Book Group
Année de publication	2009-04-23
Nombre de pages	288
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