Title:
The age of the unthinkable : why the new world disorder constantly surprises us and what to do about it
Author:
Ramo, Joshua Cooper.
ISBN:
9780316118088
9781408700594
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Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
Physical Description:
279 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
pt. 1: The sandpile effect. The nature of the age ; The old physics ; The sandpile ; Avalanche country ; Budweiser -- pt. 2: Deep security. Mashup ; The general and the billionaire ; The management secrets of Hizb'allah ; The limits of persuasion ; Riding the earthquake ; The revolution and you.
Abstract:
Drawing upon history, economics, complexity theory, human immunology, psychology, and his own extraordinary experiences, Ramo delivers a brilliant new paradigm for understanding the dangerous--and dangerously unpredictable--new global order.
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