The Age of the Unthinkable
by Ramo, Joshua CooperEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-06-02
Publisher(s): Back Bay Books
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Summary
Just a few years into a new century, we've arrived at a moment of unthinkable peril and incredible opportunity. In the New York Times bestseller The Age of the Unthinkable Ramo offers a new model for thriving in an era of the unexpected. Drawing upon history, economics, complexity theory, immunology and human psychology Ramo describes a landscape of inherent unpredictability and remarkable possibility. Finding surprising lessons from people as diverse as Silicon Valley titans, Islamic terror groups, spymasters and videogamers, he reveals a breathtaking, hopeful new framework for facing the challenges ahead.
Author Biography
Joshua Cooper 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.
Table of Contents
| The Sandpile Effect | |
| The Nature of the Age | p. 3 |
| The Old Physics | p. 20 |
| The Sandpile | p. 41 |
| Avalanche Country | p. 64 |
| Budweiser | p. 82 |
| Deep Security | |
| Mashup | p. 103 |
| The General and the Billionaire | p. 132 |
| The Management Secrets of Hizb'allah | p. 169 |
| The Limits of Persuasion | p. 200 |
| Riding the Earthquake | p. 226 |
| The Revolution and You | p. 255 |
| Afterword to the Paperback Edition | p. 265 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 271 |
| Selected Sources | p. 273 |
| Index | p. 283 |
| Reading Group Guide | p. 287 |
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